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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Tag: flower
What Makes Flowers Beautiful
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light, and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey
Brevity
We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”
Planting
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Unknown, though attributed to Martin Luther
Finding Art
Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too. W.E.B. Du Bois
The Law of Nature
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Michael Faraday
Watering
Learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them. Thomas Bien, Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds
The Blossom
We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen. Author Unknown
