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Posted on October 9, 2022
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“{Beauty is the harvest of presence.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: BeautyTags: cloudy sky, david whyte, farm, field, hay bales, jubilee farm, nature, new berlin - illinois, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on February 27, 2022
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“Zen pretty much comes down to three things – everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” Jane Hirshfield To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: buddha, farm, forest, illinois, indian creek farm, jane hirshfield, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, statue, udumbara zen center, wedron, zen
Posted on February 13, 2022
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“Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love him as they love their cow–they love their cow for the milk and cheese and profit it makes them. This is how it is with people who… Continue Reading “How Would We See God?”
Category: Finding GodTags: cow, ear tag, farm, kentucky, livestock, meister eckhart, Meister Eckhart a modern translation, quote, Raymond Bernard Blakney, santa sabina center retreat, st. catharine ky, steer
Posted on September 24, 2021
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“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 To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings,… Continue Reading “Hello Sun in my Face!”
Category: SpiritualityTags: bale of hay, farm, field, jubilee farm, mary oliver, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, sunrise
Posted on April 23, 2021
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A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Category: Care of the EarthTags: bale of hay, care of earth, farm, field, grass, montana, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, walt whitman
Posted on March 22, 2021
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“Being silent for me doesn’t require being in a quiet place, and it doesn’t mean not saying words. It means, “receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening.” – Sylvia Boorstein To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings,… Continue Reading “True Silence”
Category: SpiritualityTags: birds, canada goose, eco-justice center, equanimity, farm, geese, nature, photo, photography, quote, racine, santa sabina center retreat, sylvia boorstein, white geese
Posted on March 21, 2021
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land… Continue Reading “All Is Sacrament – Let Us Bow”
Category: SpiritualityTags: eco-justice center, farm, grapes, grapevine, nature, photo, photography, quote, racine, ripening grapes, sacrament, santa sabina center retreat, the gift of good land, wendell berry
Posted on September 29, 2019
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Great Swanby by Lex Hixon
Category: SpiritualityTags: eco-justice center, farm, gourds, great swanky, lex hixon, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, racine, sri ramakrishna paramahamsa
Posted on September 15, 2019
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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community,… Continue Reading “The Soil Connects Us”
Posted on May 10, 2015
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As we face the grand ecological crisis of our time, our most important renewable resource is hope. We simply must put it on with our shoes each morning. – Barbara Kingsolver