Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike. – John Muir
As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace. – Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. – Thomas Merton in The Mystic Hours by Wayne Teasdale
Yogis are drunk on discipline. Priests are drunk on scriptures. Celibates are drunk on vanity. Monks are drunk on prestige. So what’s left for you? What could you possibly get drunk on? I recommend being drunk on peace, being drunk on joy, being drunk… Continue Reading “Good Things to Thirst for”