How to Walk

“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”

  • Thich Nhat Hanh

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Miracle of Light and Dark

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. I guess you could say I have a pretty low threshold for miracles.”

  • Walt Whitman

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Clouds Appearing

“Clouds appear free of care

And carefree drift away.

But the carefree mind is not to be “found” —

To find it, first stop looking around.”

  • Wang An-Shih, A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, trans. J. W. Wallis

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Focused Attention

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less we shall have for destruction.”

  • Rachel Carson

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You Are Ocean

“You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

  • Rumi

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Believe in Yourself

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

  • e. e. cummings

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

We Turn to Earth

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.”

  • Rachel Carson

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Everyday Wonders

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

  • Rumi

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

True Freedom

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

  • Toni Morrison

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Thresholds of Wonder

“The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.”

  • John O’Donohue

Photo by Patricia Dougherty, OP

Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, “Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.