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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wisdom of the Pueblo People
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.”
- Pueblo Blessing
Wisdom of the Chippewa
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”
- Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly
Today and Everyday
“Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others for the benefit of all beings.”
- Dalai Lama
Flowers Just Bloom
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
- Zen Shin
Wall or Bridge
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
- Angela Davis
Legacy
What is legacy? Planting seeds in a garden you’ll never see.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, “The World Was Wide Enough,” Hamilton
The Future Will Unfold
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
- Peace Pilgrim
The Blessed Mountains
These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be . . . . the whole body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable. One’s body then seems homogeneous throughout, sound as a crystal.
- John Muir
Forget Past Errors
So far as past errors are concerned, forget them and start afresh, as if it were your first day in this body; but so far as your present contacts are concerned, be kind to them, as if it were your last day in this body.
- Paul Brunton
Experiencing the Present
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
- Annie Dillard
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