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Shaping One’s Attention
Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one’s absolute attention.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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 Great Sea of Being
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.
― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Imprint of the Eternal Pleasure
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XX, lines 73–77 (tr. Sinclair).
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
All Creation has an Order
All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Our Journey Demands It
Let us go, for the length of our journey demands it.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Love that Moves the Stars
God is the love that moves the sun and stars.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 28–30 (tr. Sinclair).
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
God’s Will Is Our Peace
And [God’s] will is our peace; this is the sea
To which is moving onward whatsoever
It doth create, and all that nature makes.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
We Came to See
We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Behold the Grass
Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.
– Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Radiancies of the Perfected Vision
These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.
― Dante Alighieri, The Paradiso
This month, on November 12th, 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 retreat and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
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