Why Retreat?
“Meditation is not evasion. It is a serene encounter with reality” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright”
– Amanda Gorman, US National Youth poet Laureate
“Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow.”
John Lennon
“The most common way that people give up their power is by thinking that they don’t have any”
Alice Walker
“One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living”
Elisabeth Lesser
“It’s not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other”
Sara Maitland
“Happiness not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but for this hour”
Walt Whitman
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”
James Baraz