Tag: nature

Impossible Things

I like to imagine impossible things, because when I only imagine possible things, I pretty much see stuff I already expect to see. – Brian Andreas To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Persistence

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. – Ovid To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Crossing the Abyss

Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. – Nisargadatta Maharaj To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Now

Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. – Doris Lessing To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

The Sacred Tree

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. – Black Elk To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go… Continue Reading “The Sacred Tree”

Thinking Well

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. – Miyamoto Mushashi To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. . Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from August 8… Continue Reading “Thinking Well”

The Ocean of Not Knowing

To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work. – Suleika Jaouad To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. . Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the… Continue Reading “The Ocean of Not Knowing”

Calm

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day. – Alan Watts To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from… Continue Reading “Calm”

Here Is the World

Here is the world: beautiful and terrible thinks will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from… Continue Reading “Here Is the World”

Discovery

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and… Continue Reading “Discovery”