Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
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.… Continue Reading “The Cosmic Dance”
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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.
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.
The eye with which I see God is the same as the eye with which God sees me. – Meister Eckhart To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour, and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so. – George Washington Carver To learn about and/or register… Continue Reading “Unlimited”
Instructions for living a life.Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it. – Mary Oliver To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from August 8 to 13,… Continue Reading “Instructions”