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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Secret Destinations
“All journeys have a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.”
- Martin Buber
On September 11th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Linda Trichter and Anne Bright, who will guide participants in the way of Proprioceptive Writing. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/201
What Is Active Hope?
“Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world.”
- Joanna Macy
On September 11th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Linda Trichter and Anne Bright, who will guide participants in the way of Proprioceptive Writing. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/201
Happiness Arises
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
– Chuang Tzu
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Fragility
Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
– John O’Donohue
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Why We Plant Roses
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
– George Eliot
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Turning toward Light
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
– Richard Rohr
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Beholding the Art with which It has been Made
I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that wherever you go, the least plant may bring you the clear remembrance of the Creator. A single plant, a blade of grass or one speck of dust is sufficient to occupy all your intelligence in beholding the art with which it has been made.
– Basil the Great
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
You Are the Mirror
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
– Kahlil Gibran
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
The Moon Inside
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Earth Prayer – Part 6
O nameless spirit that is not done with us,
let us love without a net
beyond the fear of death
until the speck of peace
we guard so well
becomes the world.
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
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