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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Burnishing Us into an Object of Delight
The same pain that can blemish our personality can act as a creative force, burnishing it into an object of delight.
– Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting Times.
‘ So this month’s quotes will be related to groundlessness and how we meet the unexpected in our lives.
To learn more about our retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Courage to Bloom
The flower is always the bud’s undoing. Let go then. Step into the river lean into the wind let the strength of the earth rise through you. Watch your fingertips burst into bloom.
– Pavithra K. Mehta
Wakening to Oneness – Our Very Substance
And I saw no difference between God and our substance, but, as it were, all God; and still my understanding accepted that our substance is in God, that is to say that God is God, and our substance is a creature in God. For the almighty truth of the Trinity is our Father, for he made us and keeps us in him. And the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, in whom we are enclosed. And the high goodness of the Trinity is our Lord, and in him we are enclosed and he in us.
– Julian of Norwich The Fourteenth Revelation, ch. 54
Wednesday of Hope – Not Striving for Success
Hope is the ability to work for something because it’s good, not just because it stands a chance of succeeding.
– Mary O’Driscoll, OP
The Earth Itself Is Alive
Some scientists go so far as to suggest that Earth itself is alive, that it is actively coordinating the temperature of its atmosphere or the salinity of its oceans.
Brian Swimme, Journey of the Universe
Wakening to Oneness – to the Cosmos Within & Without
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the Universe to know itself.
– Carl Sagan
Wednesday of Hope – Let Everything Happen to You
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Don’t Miss What Is Right Before You
For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Wakening to Oneness – Finding the Divine
The great breakthrough in our current theological awareness, as a result of new scientific discoveries about our expanding universe, is that the Divine is found not only in the bliss of timeless, changeless, eternal being, but also in the ecstatic urgency of evolutionary becoming.
– Gail Worcelo, SGM
Wednesday of Hope – Anything Is Possible
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
– Christopher Reeve
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