Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
“As spiritual practitioners we need to have some curiosity about the unknown. When unexplored territory frightens us, we need to ask ourselves, “Where’s our sense of adventure?””
“A well taken care of today will pave the way for a well taken care of tomorrow.”
You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units?
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
I saw the tree was standing thereBearing some of my life in itI was rising high in the branches of the treeAnd sinking deep in the roots of the treeNow I am the treeThe tree is me.
Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
“Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.”