Santa Sabina Center

The function of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze. - John O'Donohue Beginning July 15th, Santa Sabina Center offers the Online series, Surprise, Laughter & Wonder, with Patricia Bruno, OP & Jude Siciliano, OP. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom. E. B. White Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

We come from God and return to God, and in the 'interim' we live in the presence of God--even when we do not know or acknowledge it. We are created in the image of God (the entire universe reflects God's glory, each and every creature and thing in its particular, concrete, unique way). Creation is a panoply of mind-boggling diversity, a myriad of outrageously extravagant species and individuals who all together make up the body of God.... Each creature praises God by simply being itself, by being fully alive. - Sallie McFague To learn about and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Black Elk Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

We can do anything we want today. Look how beautiful it is. Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W. B. Yeats Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. - Jorge Luis Borges Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

Though I hadn't planned it this way when I scheduled the post. Today's is perfect for us at Santa Sabina Center as we welcome Sylvia Boorstein in our Doorways to the Sacred series. You'll recognize the photo as including heads of the Buddha, and the quote is Abraham Joshua Heschel. And certainly Sylvia, who embodies both traditions, has lived "an endless pilgrimage of the heart." The program begins at 10:30 Pacific Time. There is still time to register. https://opreach.org/2021/06/16/pilgrimage-of-the-heart/

"Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart." -Abraham Joshua Heschel Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online series entitled, Doorways to the Sacred. To learn more, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page.

The air was hot and still. The waves were an old rhythm beside me. I knelt over flat sand, where the tallest wave had sorted a ribbon of shell. Some four-footed creature had been along, leaving a trail that turned aside, as mine did, for every cluster of debris, every drift-bundle in the sand. - Kim Stafford, A Walk in Early May, from Having Everything Right: Essays of Place Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: Speak Beauty to Power. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

She rose up, watched a moment for any response to her rising, then stretched and stepped out onto the open slope. Beside her, another doe rose up from the shade. The two stood, slightly oblique to one another, divided as the one’s ears had been to listen. They did not look my way, only below into the brushy ravines between shoulders of clear ground. - Kim Stafford, A Walk in Early May, from Having Everything Right: Essays of Place Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: Speak Beauty to Power. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

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The branches turn abruptly back on themselves like the rune named yew, the rune for death. I want to ask their twisted forms Does it hurt so much, coming out of the ground? I lean on a trunk. The pitchy berries are dull red, the flat needles still. Then starlight. - Kim Stafford, Pine, Fir, Cedar, Yew, from Having Everything Right: Essays of Place Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: Speak Beauty to Power. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page

Watersound woke me. Dark. I was ready to lie there season by season, to die from my life, or to live as the river lives, to climb with salmon and fall away from that final loving work like rain, to tumble headlong, to flicker away silver with light, powered by moon and sun. - Kim Stafford, River and Road, from Having Everything Right: Essays of Place Starting on February 11, 2021, Santa Sabina Center will offer an Online Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: Speak Beauty to Power. To learn more and/or register for our online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page