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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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All of Life Is Holy
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. – Terry Tempest Williams, from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)
Shall I Become a Lighthouse?
May I become an island for those seeking dry land A lamp for those needing light, A place of rest for those who desire one, And a servant for those needing service. – Shantideva
From Where Have You Come?
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher
O Oriens – O Dayspring
O Rising Dawn, brightness of the Light Eternal and Son of Righteousness, O come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. – source of translation unknown
More Wisdom from Tagore
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. – Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom of Tagore
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. – Rabindranath Tagore
Cultivate the Gift of Appreciation
Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. – Abraham H. Maslow
The Grandeur of God
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil. – Gerard Manley Hopkins from God’s Grandeur
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