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Trusting our Creativity
“When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment – an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.” Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August… Continue Reading “Trusting our Creativity”
Advent Waiting while We Weep
No wonder the prophet weeps yet –We begin again but not innocent…And we feebly watch for you and wait.Teach us how to weep while we wait.and how to hope while we weep,and how to care while we hope. – Walter Brueggemann, “Teach Us How… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting while We Weep”
Advent Waiting without Anxiety
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity― T.S. Eliot 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 our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
The Wisdom of Kahil Gibran
In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahil Gibran, The Prophet
In Return for Our Gratefulness . . .
In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life. – Albert Schweitzer
The Expansiveness of Gratefulness
There’s a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it’s a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for. – Elaine St. James
Dewdrops Outside My Door
For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door. – Rabindranath Tagore
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Gratitude
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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