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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
What Is Enough?
Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough?
– Kent Neburn
Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.– Langston Hughes
Planting and Reaping
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
– Meister Eckhart
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Unrealistic
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.
– Paul Hawken
Bring forth a Flower
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
– Shigenori Kameoka
Wednesday of Hope – Nothing is Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
– Charles L. Allen
How Beautiful Can Life Be?
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.
– Charles Eisenstein
Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
When Is Time Really Wasted?
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
– Václav Havel
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