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God’s Pardon
God is more willing to pardon than we are to sin. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
You Cannot Be Too Kind
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives. To learn about and/or register… Continue Reading “You Cannot Be Too Kind”
The Force of Gratitude
No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of gratitude changes the present. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
A Good Traveler
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Strange and Wonderful
“It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go… Continue Reading “Strange and Wonderful”
Mountains and Oceans
“Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.” To learn about and/or register for Santa… Continue Reading “Mountains and Oceans”
Memory
“Every place, every landscape, is a site of memory and a site of erasure over different scales of time and space. Sand and stone are pieces of Earth’s memory; yet, you could also say that each of us is a terrain inscribed by memory… Continue Reading “Memory”
Birdsong
“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.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “Birdsong”
Silence
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Magic
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
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