Posted on September 7, 2020
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The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty. – Rachel Naomi Remen This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting Times.” So this month’s quotes will be related… Continue Reading “Tolerating Uncertainty”
Category: SpiritualityTags: foggy morning, lagoon, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, rachel naomi remen, santa cruz, santa sabina center, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on June 14, 2014
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Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike. – John Muir
Category: SpiritualityTags: bird, grasses, great blue heron, heron, John Muir, lagoon, las gallinas, las gallinas salt marsh, marsh, nature, photo, photography, quote, san rafael
Posted on June 13, 2014
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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Posted on June 12, 2014
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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace. – Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Category: SpiritualityTags: canada goose, goose, lagoon, las gallinas salt marsh, marsh, nature, photo, photography, quote, san rafael, thomas merton
Posted on February 1, 2014
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– Nelson Mandela
Category: ForgivenessTags: bolinas, bolinas lagoon, fence, gate, lagoon, marin headlands, mountain, nelson mandela, photo, photography, quote, scenery
Posted on January 19, 2014
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So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. – Helen Keller
Posted on August 27, 2013
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I’ve read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes. – Kathleen Raine
Category: SpiritualityTags: black and white photo, chrissy field, egret, kathleen raine, lagoon, photo, photography, presidio, quote, reflections, san francisco
Posted on May 6, 2013
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The Peace of the Wild Things When despair for the world 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… Continue Reading “Where Do You Find Peace?”
Category: PeaceTags: chrissy field, ducks, heron, lagoon, nature, photo, photography, poetry, san francisco, the peace of the wild things, wendell berry
Posted on April 13, 2013
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Today’s Easter Poem from Education for Justice is by David Whyte. Ten Years Later When the mind is clear and the surface of the now still, now swaying water slaps against the rolling kayak, I find myself near darkness, paddling again to yellow Island.… Continue Reading “Ten Years Later”
Category: EasterTags: bolinas, david whyte, education for justice, house of belonging, island, lagoon, nature, photo, photography, poem, rowboat, ten years later
Posted on March 7, 2013
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Education for Justice is by David Whyte. Self Portrait It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you can know despair or see it in others. I want to… Continue Reading “Self Portrait”
Category: LentTags: bolinas, david whyte, education for justice, fire in the earth, lagoon, lent, lenten reflection, nature, photo, photography, poem, poetry, self portrait, sunrise