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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”
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. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings,… Continue Reading “We Are Part of One Another”
For Ash Wednesday
Untouchable Beauty You flowers and trees, you hills and streams, you fields, flocks, and wild birds, you books, you poems, and you people, I am utterly alone in the midst of you. I am solitary and helpless, surrounded by a beauty that can never… Continue Reading “For Ash Wednesday”
Seeing a Flower
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
What the Trees Say
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Going on Pilgrimage
[The human person] instinctively regards [the] self as a wanderer and wayfarer, and it is second nature for [her or] him to go on pilgrimage in search of a privileged and holy place, a center and source of indefectible life. Thomas Merton We are… Continue Reading “Going on Pilgrimage”
Finding the Still Point
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes our… Continue Reading “Finding the Still Point”
Beauty in the Ordinary
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things. – Thomas Merton To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Advent Waiting for the Uninvited
Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton At Santa Sabina Center we await the time we can reopen for in-person retreats and can welcome you. To learn more and/or register… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting for the Uninvited”
Let Us Join All of Creation in the Dance
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, absurdity, and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair… Continue Reading “Let Us Join All of Creation in the Dance”
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