Lifting our Wilted Spirits

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

The Awakening Power of Beauty

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

The Art of God

Nature is the art of God.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

How Is My Desire Moved?

My desire and will were moved already – like a wheel revolving uniformly – by the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
– Dante Alighieri, Par.33,143-45

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Footprint of the Divine

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
– Dante Alighieri

Ceiling Bahai Temple, Wilmette, Illinois

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

The Meaningful Journey

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

THe Color of Autumn

With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.
– Dante Alighieri

Priory Campus, Dominican University, River Forest

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Here and Now

Everywhere is here and every when is now.
– Dante Alighieri

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Recognizing Each and Everyone

By its seed each herb is recognized.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XVI, line 114 (tr. Longfellow)

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Put Back All Sorrow

Put back all sorrow from your mind; and never forget that I am always by you should it occur again, as we walk on, that we find ourselves where others of this crew fall to such petty wrangling and upbraiding. The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Sutro Baths

This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with Kayleen Asbo. So this month’s quotes are from the writings of Dante.

To learn more about our retreats, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page