Posted on November 30, 2020
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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.– Dante Alighieri This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Finding Our Way through the Dark Woods: A Retreat with Dante’s Divine… Continue Reading “Beginning the Ascent”
Category: SpiritualityTags: dante alighieri, el dorado national forest, hiking, mountains, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, sierra nevadas
Posted on October 3, 2020
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The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the times… Continue Reading “Creation Continues”
Category: SpiritualityTags: clouds, colorado, landscape, mountains, nature, photo, photography, pierre teilhard de chardin, quote, rocky mountains, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on July 31, 2020
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Finding where exactly the outside world ends and I begin—is not so easy. – Nora Bateson
Category: OnenessTags: grass, great salt lake, great salt lake state park, hand, lake, mountains, nature, nora bateson, Oneness, origami crane, photo, photography, post-processing, quote, utah
Posted on June 21, 2020
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“Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.” – St. Gregory the Great
Category: DiscipleshipTags: alabama hills, clouds, mountains, mt. whitney, nature, photo, photography, quote, sierra nevadas, snow, st. gregory the great, whitney portal
Posted on February 3, 2020
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The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more… Continue Reading “Gifting Our World with Appreciation”
Category: GratefulnessTags: appreciation, canoes, forest, lake, michael josephson, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, yosemite
Posted on January 15, 2020
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Hope will never be silent. – Harvey Milk
Posted on October 23, 2019
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Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. – Rebecca Solnit
Category: Hope / HealingTags: clouds, grand tetons national park, hope, lake, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote, rebecca solnit, reflection
Posted on October 9, 2019
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Deep trust in life is not a feeling but a stance that you deliberately take. It is the attitude we call courage. – David Steindl-Rast
Posted on October 6, 2019
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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Jalaluddin Rumi
Posted on September 25, 2019
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Hope is not dead, it is just larger than our imaginations. – Kathy Hobaugh
Category: Hope / HealingTags: big sky montana, clouds, forest, hope, kathy hobaugh, montana, mountains, nature, photo, photography, quote