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The Blossom
We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen.
The Battle of Peace
Peace is the only battle worth waging. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Ordinary Days
In our most ordinary days we have moments of happiness, moments of comfort and enjoyment, moments of seeing something that pleased us, something that touched us, moments of contacting the tenderness of our hearts . . . It’s essential during the day . .… Continue Reading “Ordinary Days”
Protecting Peace
“Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and… Continue Reading “Protecting Peace”
Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things
When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope in The Peace of the Wild Things”
Oneness with the Universe
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great… Continue Reading “Oneness with the Universe”
More on Kindness
Every act of kindness, courageously offered, however small, is a small flower sown in a field of peace. • Wayne Muller in Learning to Pray
If You Truly Desire Peace . . .
Love it the way it is. -Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas – The Feast of the Epiphany
May peace be on our lips and in our hearts at Christmas and all through the year.
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