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Posted on February 27, 2021
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“I reach out my hand to God that He may carry me along as a feather is borne weightlessly by the wind…” – Hildegard of Bingen From March 11-14, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Retreat with Kayleen Asbo: “Claiming our Inner Light… Continue Reading “We Long for the Lightness of Being God Offers”
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, bolinas, bolinas bay, feather, hildegard of bingen, kayleen asbo, marin headlands, nature, online retreat, pacific ocean, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on February 13, 2021
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“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh To learn about Santa Sabina Center’s online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, lands end, nature, ocean beach, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, rocks, san francisco, santa sabina center, santa sabina center retreat, seal rock, thich nhat hanh, waves
Posted on February 12, 2021
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“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 To learn about Santa Sabina Center’s online retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Wisdom of Thomas Berry”
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, bolinas, earth, log, man sitting, morning, nature, quote, santa sabina center retreat, silhouette, the great work, thomas berry, waves
Posted on February 11, 2021
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“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… Continue Reading “Where Do the Waves Begin?”
Category: SpiritualityTags: a wave's purpose, beach, bolinas, clouds, kim stafford, nature, online retreat, paddle board, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, surf, waves, wind on the waves, writing retreat
Posted on February 9, 2021
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“We wanted to be wind on the waves – not the schooner, or even the sail that bellied and caught it. We wanted to be the wind itself. We wanted to dance and scamper, to be the spiral that hugs the planet, the wisp… Continue Reading “Wind on the Waves”
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, boat, bolinas bay, kim stafford, marin headlands, ocean, online retreat, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, stinson beach, sunrise, writing retreat
Posted on February 8, 2021
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“The air was hot and still. The waves were an old rhythm beside me. I knelt over flat sand, where the tallest wave had sorted a ribbon of shell. Some four-footed creature had been along, leaving a trail that turned aside, as mine did,… Continue Reading “Beauty at Our Feet”
Category: BeautyTags: a walk in early may, beach, kim stafford, long island, long island sound, napeague harbor, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, sand, santa sabina center retreat, shells, writing retreat
Posted on January 29, 2021
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Well, a bubble can’t last long, and a raindrop, what’s a raindrop for but to join the throng? Somehow they were aimed for the exact same moment in time, and they got there together. Then they were – what were they? The bubble opened,… Continue Reading “The Raindrop Is the Whole Ocean”
Category: OnenessTags: a bubble can't last long, beach, bubbles, kim stafford, lost coast, nature, ocean, online retreat, pacific ocean, pelican rock, pelicans, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, santa sabina center retreat, waves, wind on the waves
Posted on January 23, 2021
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The waves and the wind have a kinship in that cove I’ve not seen anywhere else. There’s a place out on the water I call Salt Taste, because of how the wind whips and water spits around the rocks. The wind spins past the… Continue Reading “Gratitude for What Is Given”
Category: GratefulnessTags: beach, coffee at the eavesdrop cafe, fog, gratitude, kim stafford, nature, online retreat, pacific ocean, photo, photography, pleasure point, quote, santa cruz, santa sabina center retreat, waves, wind on the waves
Posted on January 17, 2021
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Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. – David Steindl-Rast To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, Beauty, chrissy field, clouds, david steindl-rast, golden gate bridge, marin headlands, morning, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, san francisco bay, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on January 7, 2021
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Seek not to count the future waves of Time;But be ye satisfied that you have lightEnough to take your step and find your foothold, – T. S. Eliot, “Two Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” The Waste Land and Other Poems Starting on January 12, 2021, Santa… Continue Reading “Grateful for the Light We Have”
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, kayleen asbo, lands end, nature, ocean, online retreat, pacific ocean, photo, photography, poem, quote, rocks, san francisco, san francisco bay, santa sabina center retreat, t.s. eliot, the wasteland and other poems, two choruses from the rock, waves