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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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Are You a Friend of Silence
“God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.… Continue Reading “Are You a Friend of Silence”
Brevity
We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”
The Wisdom of the Dalai Lama
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. Dalai Lama
Belief in Goodness
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good. Albert Schweitzer
Happy Easter
Our task is to take this Earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. Rainer Maria Rilke
Wisdom of the Chippewa
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.” Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly
Flowers Just Bloom
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. Zen Shin
True Treasure
Treasure this day and treasure yourself truly, neither will ever happen again. Ray Bradbury
