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What Is Life?
“Life is not meant to give us what we want, unless what we want is to be broken open so the light can get free.”
Autumn Beauty
On a bare brancha crow settlesin autumn dusk To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Everything Is Our Teacher
When you forget all your dualistic ideas, everything becomes your teacher, and everything can be the object of worship. – Shunryu Suzuki To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Can We Imagine Beauty
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. – Charles Eisenstein To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Time’s Gift
“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Nature’s Repair
“There I feel that nothing can befall me in life – no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Being Touched by Mystery
“The mystery of God touches us — or does not — in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.” Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself To learn about… Continue Reading “Being Touched by Mystery”
Wednesday of Hope – No One/Nothing is Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. – Charles L. Allen These doors are displayed on the lawn in front of Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park, Illinois. Last year… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – No One/Nothing is Hopeless”
Wednesday of Hope – One Day at a Time
Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties need not overwhelm us. This lifts from our hearts and minds the heavy weight of both past and future. – Anonymous, One Day at a Time in Al-Anon
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