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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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May Hatred Be Transformed by Beauty
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. – Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman
Greeting the Morning, Come what May
There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown. – Jessica Powers
God’s Handwriting
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. –… Continue Reading “God’s Handwriting”
The Wisdom of Heschel
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in… Continue Reading “The Wisdom of Heschel”
Wisdom of George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?
It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of… Continue Reading “Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?”
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
And Mark Twain once said, “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials
All animals who lift their voices at dawn sing to God. The volcanoes and the clouds and the trees cry to us about God. The whole creation cries to us penetratingly with a great joy about the existence and the beauty and the love… Continue Reading “In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials”
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