Posted on November 23, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
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… Continue Reading “Lifting our Wilted Spirits”
Category: Beauty, SpiritualityTags: dante alighieri, dendrobium, flowers, nashville, nature, online retreat, orchids, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on November 5, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubsWhich 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… Continue Reading “Behold the Grass”
Category: SpiritualityTags: california poppies, dante alighieri, flowers, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, poppies, quote, san rafael, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on June 12, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
Things are united by invisible bonds. You cannot pick a flower without troubling a star. – Galileo Galilei
Posted on June 7, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we have. – Pema Chodron
Posted on May 24, 2020
by opreach
2 Comments
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
Posted on May 10, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. – Alice Walker
Posted on May 6, 2020
by opreach
Leave a Comment
You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming. – Pablo Neruda
Category: Hope / HealingTags: flowers, hope, lilacia park, lombard, nature, pablo neruda, photo, photography, quote, spring, tulips
Posted on May 3, 2020
by opreach
2 Comments
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold. – Peace Pilgrim
Posted on June 30, 2019
by opreach
2 Comments
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. – Meister Eckhart
Category: SpiritualityTags: daffodils, flowers, jonquils, lilacia park, lombard, meister eckhart, nature, photo, photography, quote, tulips
Posted on June 16, 2019
by opreach
Leave a Comment
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. – Charles Eisenstein
OPreach 