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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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To Be Alive
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
The Proper Place of Peace
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
One or Two Steps?
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Shaping the Mind
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Watering
Learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them.
The Blossom
We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen.
The Miraculous Flower
The Miraculous Flower If we belong to the sun and its warmth, to the bud and the sprout, to the miraculous flower, we also belong to the wind, the naked branch, the cold.
Rewards of a Simple Life
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in… Continue Reading “Rewards of a Simple Life”
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