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What Do We Need?
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more… Continue Reading “What Do We Need?”
Wisdom of the Pueblo People
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way… Continue Reading “Wisdom of the Pueblo People”
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”
Radicality
“We are radically connected in the world. We are radically responsible for the world.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
Engagement with Mystery
To be a contemplative is to be a watch in the night for the approach of Mystery. And it is a readiness to be transformed in an engagement with that Mystery. – Mirabai Starr To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats… Continue Reading “Engagement with Mystery”
Flower and Moon
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. – Basho To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.
One with Everything
Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars that you see, You are still one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. – Shunryu Suzuki… Continue Reading “One with Everything”
The Wild
This month I am using quotes from the wonderful book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy. “What is that over there?” It’s the wild,” said the mole. “Don’t fear it.” To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina… Continue Reading “The Wild”
What Is Hope?
“Hope is what sits by a window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there is not one ounce of proof in tonight’s black, black sky that it can possibly come.” – Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope Join… Continue Reading “What Is Hope?”
What Is Life?
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” To learn about and/or register… Continue Reading “What Is Life?”
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