OPreach
Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Tag: nature
Wisdom of Kahil Gibran
Here is another author that I read in high school; The Prophet was quite popular those days. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Kahil Gibran
May Hatred Be Transformed by Beauty
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. – Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman
God’s Handwriting
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. –… Continue Reading “God’s Handwriting”
More Wisdom of Heschel
The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Wisdom of Heschel
The Wisdom of Heschel
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in… Continue Reading “The Wisdom of Heschel”
The Garden
The Garden I heard you blooming in the sun’s crescendo, your sepals stretching, petals open in an ecstasy of hue– the overture of Eden. – Nancy Compton Williams
Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?
It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of… Continue Reading “Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?”
Where Do You Find Peace?
The Peace of the Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood… Continue Reading “Where Do You Find Peace?”
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
OPreach 