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Finding Ordinary Miracles
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” Hans Christian Anderson
A Joyful “Yes”
“Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful “yes” at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything.” David Steindl-Rast
The Miracle of Gratitude
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see. Robert Holden
The Cosmic Dance
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness.… Continue Reading “The Cosmic Dance”
Bird Song
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s. Rainer Maria Rilke
Just the Beginning
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning–not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at… Continue Reading “Just the Beginning”
We Are Part of One Another
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats… Continue Reading “We Are Part of One Another”
