Category: Spirituality
Posted on March 22, 2021
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“Being silent for me doesn’t require being in a quiet place, and it doesn’t mean not saying words. It means, “receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening.” – Sylvia Boorstein To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings,… Continue Reading “True Silence”
Category: SpiritualityTags: birds, canada goose, eco-justice center, equanimity, farm, geese, nature, photo, photography, quote, racine, santa sabina center retreat, sylvia boorstein, white geese
Posted on March 21, 2021
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land… Continue Reading “All Is Sacrament – Let Us Bow”
Category: SpiritualityTags: eco-justice center, farm, grapes, grapevine, nature, photo, photography, quote, racine, ripening grapes, sacrament, santa sabina center retreat, the gift of good land, wendell berry
Posted on March 20, 2021
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“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains and rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” – Brian Andreas, StoryPeople To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: OnenessTags: atlantic ocean, bailey island, brian andreas, cloudy sky, maine, no boundaries, Oneness, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, storypeople, trees
Posted on March 19, 2021
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If your view is basic goodness, you see it wherever you go. – Pema Chodron To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, connecticut, gazing, long island sound, madison, mercy by the sea, pema chodron, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on March 18, 2021
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.” – Rumi… Continue Reading “The Field of Meeting”
Category: SpiritualityTags: bench, field, grasses, illinois, jubilee farm, photo, photography, quote, rumi, santa sabina center retreat, springfield, trees
Posted on March 17, 2021
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“My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.” – Masahide, Zen poet To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: SpiritualityTags: cloudy sky, dusk, illinois, jubilee farm, lake, masahide, moon, photo, photography, quote, reflection, santa sabina center retreat, springfield, tree
Posted on March 16, 2021
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“Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.” – Stephanie Marshall To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: Letting GoTags: butterfly, chicago, flower, garfield conservatory, monarch butterfly, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, stephanie marshall
Posted on March 15, 2021
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“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as… Continue Reading “Watching the Grand Show of the Divine”
Category: BeautyTags: arizona, clouds, grand canyon, John Muir, mesa, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, silhouette, sunset, tree
Posted on March 14, 2021
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“What we can say with some certainty is that nature is creative. And the forms of creativity that pervade nature are neither haphazard nor determined, but rather, profoundly exploratory, capable of bringing forth such a display of magnificence that it endlessly evokes our wonder.”… Continue Reading “Magnificence of Lilacs”
Category: God's PresenceTags: brian swimme, garden, illinois, lilacia park, lilacs, lombard, nature, park, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, white lilacs, wonder
Posted on March 13, 2021
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“Years wrinkle the skin – but to give up WONDER wrinkles the soul.” – Reginald Stewart To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: God's PresenceTags: chicago, flower, garfield conservatory, nature, photo, photography, quote, reginald stewart, santa sabina center retreat, sunflower, wonder