Posted on August 24, 2025
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
Category: SpiritualityTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, eastern sierras, national park, photo, photograpjy, quote, steps, sylvia boorstein, trail, white mountains
Posted on August 10, 2025
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Faith is only found when needed,only real when used.Until then it is a seed . . .
Category: SpiritualityTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, eastern sierras, forest, judith a hartley, national park, nature, photo, photography, pine cone bud, quote, tree, white mountains
Posted on August 3, 2025
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
Category: SpiritualityTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, clouds, eastern sierra, national park, nature, paramahans yogananda, photo, photography, quotes, white mountains
Posted on July 9, 2023
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“Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page. Please join us for our Contemplative Retreat Week in the Dominican Tradition from August 8 to… Continue Reading “Seeking a Tree”
Posted on June 11, 2021
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“…everything has a right to be recognized and revered. Trees have tree rights, insects have insect rights, rivers have river rights, and mountains have mountain rights.” – Thomas Berry, The Great Work Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, “Doorways to the… Continue Reading “Earth Rights”
Category: Care of the EarthTags: bristlecone pine, nature, online retreats, photo, photography, pine cone, quote, santa sabina center retreat, the great work, thomas berry, white mountains
Posted on January 31, 2021
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Like the trees, we are visitors, guests on the earth. – Kim Stafford Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center’s will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Speak Beauty to Power.” To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and… Continue Reading “Guests on the Earth”
Category: Care of the EarthTags: ancient bristlecone forest, bristlecone pine, bristlecone pine forest, kim stafford, nature, online retreat, photo, photography, quote, santa sabina center retreat, white mountains
Posted on July 22, 2020
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May we never forget the crippled, wind-beaten trees, how they, too, bud, green and bloom. May we, too, take courage to bloom where we are planted. – David Steindl-Rast