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What Is My Work?
“My work is loving the world.” Mary Oliver To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Be the Artist . . . . Be the Healer
“At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer.” Rachel Naomi Remen To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Awakening to Oneness – Together We . . .
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. – Teilhard de Chardin This month, on October 17th, Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Teilhard the Mystic: Exploring the Five Circles of the Divine… Continue Reading “Awakening to Oneness – Together We . . .”
Endless Possibilities
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. – Margaret Atwood This month Santa Sabina Center’s online retreat is “Grounding Ourselves When There is No Ground: A Buddhist-Christian Perspective on Living in Interesting Times.” So this month’s quotes will be related to groundlessness and how… Continue Reading “Endless Possibilities”
Finding a Joyous Field
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense. – Rumi
Wednesday of Hope – the Role of Gratefulness
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. – David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Dragons Can Be Killed
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. – G.K. Chesterton
If You Truly Desire Peace . . .
Love it the way it is. -Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment
Spy Wednesday
On “Spy Wednesday” – so called because it is the day before Judas, the traitor, sold Jesus out for a bag of silver, these words from Martin Luther King, Jr., are most appropriate. Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder… Continue Reading “Spy Wednesday”
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