Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
It’s just too big a journey to ever get beyond being astounded, being surprised by the mystery. • Joseph Sharp in Spiritual Maturity
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. . . . Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there. • Joan Chittister in The Gift of Years
Unlike mere travel, a pilgrimage is a journey into the landscape of the soul. • Vivienne Hull in Pilgrim Heart by Sarah York
There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses. • Eugene Kennedy in The Wonders of Solitude edited by Dale Salwak
Occasionally – at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love- we glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness. • Daniel C. Matt in God and the Big Bang
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain in Untrain Your Parrot by Elizabeth Ham ilton
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. – Henri Matisse
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. – Thomas Merton in The Mystic Hours by Wayne Teasdale
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these may have a valuable lesson to teach us. – Black Elk in All Our Relatives by Paul Goble