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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Are We Ever Out of Communion with God?
“The place you are right now, God circled on a map for you.”
– Hafiz
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What Road Do You Walk?
The Great Way has no gate;
There are a thousand different roads.
If you pass through this barrier once,
You will walk independently in the universe.
– Mumon Kai
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To What Shall I Pay Attention?
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Is There Anything We Don’t Share?
“This is my hope: that the recognition of shared fate might cause us to act as if shared fate is the reality that in fact it is.”
– Jane Hirshfield
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Joanna Macy on Gratitude
“In times of turmoil and danger, gratitude helps to steady and ground us. It brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world.”
– Joanna Macy
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What Is My Relation to Nature?
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
– Gary Snyder
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Sacred Walking
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Wisdom of Thomas Berry
“The naïve assumption that the natural world is there to be possessed and used by humans for their advantage and in an unlimited manner cannot be accepted.”
– Thomas Berry, The Great Work
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Where Do the Waves Begin?
“She heard the staggered heartbeat of the waves outside, the syncopated drip of the faucet. She wondered where a wave started. Maybe it started way out there in a storm. But it came here, to this coast, in this moment. . . . It was like her friend, breaking against her gently from far away.”
– Kim Stafford, “A Wave’s Purpose,” from Wind on the Waves: Stories of the Oregon Coast
Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Speak Beauty to Power.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Urchin’s Hideaway
“Look at this incredible photo of the purple urchin. The book says, ‘These urchins often live in rounded depressions in the rock, which they slowly erode with their teeth and spines. I want to see that. Think the tide tomorrow will go low enough?’ ‘Look around, Babe,’ he said. ‘Our little hideaway.’”
– Kim Stafford, “Hideaway,” from Wind on the Waves: Stories of the Oregon Coast
Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Speak Beauty to Power.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
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