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Posted on November 23, 2025
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good.
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Posted on August 27, 2025
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People depend upon peaceful coexistence with each other and with Mother Nature to live in true harmony. No one exists in isolation.
Category: SpiritualityTags: ano nuevo state park, beach, elephant seals, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, surf, swimming, wu tong
Posted on April 20, 2025
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Our task is to take this Earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
Category: SpiritualityTags: flowers, matilija poppy, ocean, pacific ocean, photo, photography, poppy, quote, rainer maria rilke, sailboat, santa cruz
Posted on March 9, 2025
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“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”
Category: SpiritualityTags: chippewa, kite surfing, nature, ocean, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, robert bly, santa cruz, surf, surfer
Posted on December 1, 2024
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Maybe we should start making Advent lists – they’d be like Christmas lists, but instead of listing things we want Santa to bring us we could write down things we want Christ to break in and take from us. In the hopes he could… Continue Reading “First Sunday of Advent”
Category: AdventTags: bay, beach, bench, bolinas bay, bolinas lagoon, nadia bolz-weber, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat
Posted on November 20, 2024
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No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: GratefulnessTags: alfred north whitehead, ano nuevo state park, beach, elephant seals, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center, surf, waves
Posted on November 13, 2024
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Gratitude is twofold – love coming to visit us and love running out to greet a welcome guest. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: GratefulnessTags: beach, cliff, gratitude, henry van dyke, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center, shelter cove, surf, waves
Posted on November 3, 2024
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: Gratefulness, SpiritualityTags: ano nuevo state park, gotthold ephraim lessing, gratitude, nature, pacific ocean, path, photo, photography, quote, sand dune, santa sabina center
Posted on September 17, 2024
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I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars …. I awaken everything to life. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats… Continue Reading “The Feast of Hildegard of Bingen”
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, hildegard of bingen, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, santa cruz, santa sabina center, shore, sunrise, waves
Posted on August 18, 2024
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Horizons are not fixed points. They change as we move. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Category: SpiritualityTags: beach, cloudy sky, horizon, nature, pacific ocean, photo, photography, quote, rev. marci glass, santa cruz, santa sabina center retreat, waves