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Earth Changes Us – If We Let Her
Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond. – Robin Wall Kimmerer… Continue Reading “Earth Changes Us – If We Let Her”
Attentiveness
This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. – Mary Oliver Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,”… Continue Reading “Attentiveness”
We Are the Universe
“We are the universe pretending to be individuals.” – Deepak Chopra Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online… Continue Reading “We Are the Universe”
What Is Active Hope?
“Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world.” Joanna Macy On September 11th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Linda Trichter and Anne Bright, who will guide participants… Continue Reading “What Is Active Hope?”
Cherishing Every Word of God
Every creature is a word of God and a book about God. – Meister Eckhart To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things
When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things”
Wednesday of Hope – Quiet Courage
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
Wednesday of Hope – How Hard Is It to have Hope?
It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old, for hope must not depend on feeling good and there is the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight. You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality of the future, which… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – How Hard Is It to have Hope?”
Music Gives Wings
Music…gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. – Plato
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