OPreach
Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Tag: garfield conservatory
Wakening to Oneness – Be Willing to Experience Aloneness
Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within. -Jennifer Welwood This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting… Continue Reading “Wakening to Oneness – Be Willing to Experience Aloneness”
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
Extending Our Concept of God
The world must have a God, but our concept of God must be extended as the dimensions of our world are extended. – Teilhard de Chardin
Wakening to Oneness – The Deep Truth
The deep truth about matter, which neither Descartes nor Newton realized, is that, over the course of four billion years, molten rocks transformed themselves into monarch butterflies, blue herons, and the exalted music of Mozart. Ignorant of this stupendous process, we fell into the… Continue Reading “Wakening to Oneness – The Deep Truth”
Wakening to Oneness – What Affects One, Affects All
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday of Hope – Despair Cannot Stain Joy
…no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic joy which is always there. – Thomas Merton
OPreach 