When we walk upon Mother Earth,we always plant our feet carefullybecause we know the faces of our future generationsare looking up at us from beneath the ground.we never forget them.
~ Oren Lyons
Cloudy Sunset, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by CaptureMedia, bigstockphoto.com
…how long will it take before we return to values that support life, that recognise that all life, all creation, is sacred? Not just human beings, but butterflies and spiders, rocks and rivers, grasses and forests, algae and fungi.
When we return our consciousness to this primary awareness, this simple truth known and honoured by our ancestors, Spring will come again. How this Spring will awaken, what buds will flower, what trees will bear fruit, will depend upon our attitude and actions in the coming years and decades…”
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mountain River – photo by viadimicaribb, bigstockphoto.com
Go outside and don’t go to a special place. Just go into your neighbourhood and repeatedly, over and over again, open your ears and harvest the sounds all around you. Whether those are tree sounds or car sounds or bird sounds. Without judgment, just be present for the physical experience of sounds flowing into our consciousness. Do that over and over again and the trees will befriend you — or come into your consciousness and teach you some of what they’re saying.
~ David George Haskell
Virgin Forest, Montenegro Mountains – photo by Alexander Nikiforov, bigstockphoto.com
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification, and as its natural consequence, the practice of non-violence.
~ Arne Naess
Trumpeter Swan – photo by Mr.WildLife, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
~ David Suzuki
Alaska – photo by donna57, bigstockphoto.com
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
California Redwoods – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~ Iris Murdoch
Blooming Cosmos – photo by kamill, bigstockphoto.com
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
~ Willis Harmon
Sunrise, Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com
One belief that I would like you to consider is that; we are one. We are oneness. Our energy, our connectiveness, nature and the earths energetic force are all one. This may sound kinda woo woo and yet, in fact if you embrace this idea watch how your state of mind becomes more optimistic. More connected. More open…
~ Amy Goldberg
Iguazu Falls, Brazilian Side – photo by Tupungato, bigstockphoto.com
We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us. Given this opportunity, we can raise ourselves. We must join hands with the rest of Creation and speak of Common Sense, Responsibility, Brotherhood, and PEACE. We must understand that The Law is the Seed and only as True Partners can we survive.
~ Oren Lyons
Sunset, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by durktalsma, bigstockphoto.com
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the “dialect of moss on stone” an interface of immensity and minuteness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yang.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Stream in the Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.
~ Eleanor O’Hanlon
Quiet Morning or Evening, Central Russia – photo by krivan61, bigstockphoto.com
This new era requires a change of consciousness and values—an expansion of our worldviews and ethics. The evolutionary life impulse moves us forward from viewing ourselves as isolated individuals and competing nation states to realizing our collective presence as a species with a common origin story and shared destiny.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme
Norway – photo by Andrey Armyagov, bigstockphoto.com
Einstein on Pantheism:
Albert Einstein the brilliant German-Jewish physicist was pantheist, one might even say a “lapsed atheist”. He was an atheist as a young man and only came to pantheism in old age. He saw what other great thinkers such as Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan saw. That is that even though there may not be a deity pulling the strings that there was “something there”. Some kind of organizing force behind life.We can call this Brahman, the Oversoul, the Paramatman, the Great Spirit or just the One.
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.” ~ Albert Einstein
~ From the Pantheism FB page
Milky Way Over Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Andriy Maygutyak, bigstockphoto.com
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Bungan Beach, Australia – photo by loveleah, bigstockphoto.com
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