Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way… Continue Reading “Wisdom of the Pueblo People”
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”
“Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my… Continue Reading “Today and Everyday”
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be . . . . the whole body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the… Continue Reading “The Blessed Mountains”
So far as past errors are concerned, forget them and start afresh, as if it were your first day in this body; but so far as your present contacts are concerned, be kind to them, as if it were your last day in this… Continue Reading “Forget Past Errors”
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.