Why Is This a Wonderful Day?

This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

– Maya Angelou

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The First Step

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stairway in the U.S. Supreme Court Building

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Beauty

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

– David Steindl-Rast

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Change

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.

– Octavia E. Butler

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Hello, Sun in my Face!

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

– Mary Oliver

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Let Us Change I for We

As Malcolm X put it, “When we change the ‘I’ for the ‘We,’ even Illness becomes Wellness.”

– Joanna Macy

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There Is Always Beauty

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

– Anne Frank

DuPage River – Morton Arboretum

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The End Is Where We Start

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

– T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets

Starting today, January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center offers an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Darkness Reminds Us of Light

And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light.
O Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory!

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Light – Dappled with Shadow

We thank Thee for our little light, that is dappled with shadow.

– T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems

“For Dappled Things” by Sister Adele Rowland, OP

Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an online series on the poetry of T.S. Eliot with Kayleen Asbo. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page