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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
To Be a Flower
“To be a Flower, is profound Responsibility.”
- Emily Dickinson
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Little Boy’s Prayer
A little boy’s prayer after a geography test, “God, make Tokyo the capital of Spain.”
- Author unknown
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Endless Seasons
“Seeds move through their life stages in an endless cycle of seasons — and the cycle of seasons reminds us that the journey never ends.”
- Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
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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 spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
- John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril
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Our Connection to Nature
“The need is for the connection to nature within ourselves; only then can we understand how to act toward nature outside ourselves. Along with the obvious crimes our culture is committing against the natural world, we would be wise to remember that the main crimes are the crimes against our inner nature. From these inner crimes all the outer evil arises. This is the teaching of wisdom.”
- Jacob Needleman, Time and the Soul
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Reimagination
“We must widen our vision to a christification of the galaxies, a new unity of all cosmic life. To do so we must fix our eyes on the future, on forging new relationships of love that include the earth, all peoples, all religions, all planets and all galaxies. We need to reimagine ourselves in love, realizing that on the evolutionary time line, Christianity was born this morning and is just waking up to the newness of life. In Jesus divine love bursts forth with hopes and dreams for a new world. This new world is within our reach if we awaken to the power of love within us as the power to create anew.”
- Richard Rohr
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Radicality
“We are radically connected in the world. We are radically responsible for the world.”
- Ilia Delio
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Our Origins
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.”
- Rachel Carson
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Gardening Together
“We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.”
- Parker Palmer
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Intimacy with the Natural World
“Too many of us lack intimacy with the natural world and with our souls, and consequently we are doing untold damage to both.”
- Bill Plotki
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