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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Exit or Entry?
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard
The Cosmic Dance
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
- Thomas Merton
This is one of the “Cool Globes” that was on display at Chrissy Field in 2008.
Live in the Present
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
A Lovely Day
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
- Bernie S. Siegel, Prescriptions for Living
What Is Waiting for Us?
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
How Grass Grows
Imperfect, limited, and vulnerable as I am, the sun still shines upon me, things do work out, food appears, rain falls, wonderful conversations take place, and the grass grows without any help from me.
- Dharmavidya David Brazier
Bloom
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
- E. B. White
How Flowers Sing
Flowers are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling
Looking Deeply at a Flower
When we look deeply at a flower, we can see the whole cosmos contained in it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Listen to the Flowers
It’s not like you have to empty your mind and then you can listen to the flowers. If you try to listen to the voice of flowers, you naturally start emptying your mind. For me, ikebana is a practice of the mind.
- Mayuka Yamazaki
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