What Is a Bird?

“A bird is three things: Feathers, flight and song, And feathers are the least of these.”

– Marjorie Allen Seiffert

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

Diversity Is Nature’s Way

“Uniformity is not nature’s way; diversity is nature’s way.”

– Vandana Shiva

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

Nothing Exists Alone

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

– Rachel Carlson

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

Listen to the Stones

Mount Whitney, as seen from the Alabama Hills

“Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

What Beauty Opens Us To

“When we come upon beautiful things, they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.”

– Elaine Scarry

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

Earth’s Music

“The earth has music for those who will listen.”

– Reginald Holmes

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

The Pace of Nature

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bristlecone Pine in the Ancient Bristlecone Forest

Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org. 

A Spiritual Journey

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,

but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,

very arduous and humbling and joyful,
by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home.

  • Wendell Berry, Collected Poems

To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Searching For . . .

We are knee-deep in a river, searching for water.

  • Kabir Helminski
Glacier National Park

To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Making Your Way

When you try hard to make your own way, you will help others. . . . Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

  • Shunryu Suzuki
Ancient Bristlecone Forest

We are excited to offer a virtual retreat – a virtual pilgrimage – with Fr. Michael Fish, OSB Cam, entitled, Levanté 1. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.