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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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Seasons of Our Lives
Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Seasons of Our Lives”
The Velvet Red Maple
They say life is a cruel thing, but they haven’t seen the velvet red maple tree in my front yard with the wind in its hair and all the leaves dancing. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “The Velvet Red Maple”
Contemplate Beauty
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Without Trees
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Alive Poems
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Mountains and Oceans
“Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.” To learn about and/or register for Santa… Continue Reading “Mountains and Oceans”
Our Origins
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Looking Within
When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life turns. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj To learn about and/or register for Santa… Continue Reading “Looking Within”
The Wonders and Realities of the Universe
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. – Rachel Carson To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to:… Continue Reading “The Wonders and Realities of the Universe”
The Spell of the Sea
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Cousteau To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
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