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Posted on September 2, 2022
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“When we walk with love, new roads open to us and we see the way forward where before there was only a wall.” Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople Please join us, in-person or online, for our Day of Prayer on September 7th. To learn about and/or register… Continue Reading “New Roads”
Category: SpiritualityTags: gabriel andreas, journey, nature, photo, photograph, quote, red rock, road, santa sabina center retreat, storypeople, utah
Posted on August 31, 2022
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“In biology, every ‘I’ has been enabled by a ‘we.’” Andreas Weber To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Posted on August 28, 2022
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“Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.” Rebecca Solnit To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: Hope / HealingTags: forest, hope, nature, photo, photography, quote, rebecca solnit, redwoods abbey, redwoods monastery, santa sabina center retreat, sweet pea, whitethorn, wild sweet pea, wildflowers
Posted on August 26, 2022
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“When a forest gets to be this old and untouched, it becomes something more than a forest. It becomes what we would think of as a mind, with history, knowledge, memory, and foresight.” Rick Bass To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center… Continue Reading “More than a Forest”
Category: SpiritualityTags: forest, hanging moss, nature, photo, photography, redwoods abbey, redwoods monastery, santa sabina center retreat, spanish moss, tree moss, twigs, whitethorn
Posted on August 24, 2022
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“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” Jalaluddin Rumi To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: cloudy sky, forest, jalaluddin rumi, nature, photo, photography, quote, redwood forest, redwood trees, redwoods abbey, redwoods monastery, santa sabina center retreat, trees, whitethorn
Posted on August 21, 2022
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Every being has its own important and unique place in the cosmic dance. Lawrence Overmire To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Posted on August 19, 2022
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[T]he divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. – Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe (2009) To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and… Continue Reading “Listening to the Divine through the Natural World”
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, garden, lilacia park, lilacs, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, the sacred universe, thomas berry, trees
Posted on August 17, 2022
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A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.”…Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. Robin Wall Kimmerer To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, garden, lilacia park, lombard, nature, photo, photography, quote, robin wall kimmerer, santa sabina center, santa sabina center retreat, tulips
Posted on August 12, 2022
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“We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “We Are a One-Day Dandelion”
Category: SpiritualityTags: dandelion, flower, glacier national park, louise erdrich, montana, nature, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center, weed
Posted on August 10, 2022
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“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.” Joanna Macy To learn about and/or register… Continue Reading “To Be Alive”
Category: SpiritualityTags: fish, gold fish, joanna macy, nature, photo, photography, pond, quote, ripples, santa sabina center, stockton