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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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We Are Always Traveling
“In one sense we are always traveling, and traveling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived. We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are… Continue Reading “We Are Always Traveling”
We Need Curiosity
“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?””
Take Care of This Day
“A well taken care of today will pave the way for a well taken care of tomorrow.”
The Best Teachers
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.
No Names
… 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?
Always Beauty
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 Am the Tree
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.
How Trees Preach
Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
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