True love does not just choose one person. When true love is there, you shine like a lamp. You don’t just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you, everyone around you will profit—not only humans, but animals, plants, and minerals. Love, true love, is that.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Color of Love – photo by Elizabeth Lehmann
How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana – photo by Alexey Kamenskiy, bigstockphoto.com
Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul and embed this planet with its goodness.
~ John LewisMore Summer Lotus Beauty – photo by Angle DiBenedetto
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit. ~ Pablo Amaringo
Sunset Near Black Sea – photo by Mr. Smith, bigstockphoto.com
Perhaps our “life’s purpose” has nothing to do with what job we will find, what new thing we will manifest or attract for ourselves, or what mythical awakening journey we will complete. Perhaps the purpose of our life is to fully live, finally, to touch each here and now moment with our presence and with the gift of our one, wild heart.
And to do whatever we can to help others, to hold them when they are hurting, to listen carefully to their stories and the ways they are attempting to make sense of a world that has gone a bit mad. To speak kind words and not forget the erupting miracle of the other as it appears in front of us. Perhaps this is the most radical gift that we can all give.
~ Matt Licata
Gift of Summer, Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter.
~ Olivia Goldhill
Early Morning Dawn – photo by Dzmitrock, bigstockphoto.com
Over the centuries, human beings have come to care more about collecting material things than supporting Nature’s gifts, people and living creations. There has been a loss of our sense of the Sacredness of Life…We’ve placed more emphasis on wanting, getting, measuring and comparing than on living, loving, learning and being. What we’ve forgotten is that every life is precious and unique. Every day, every moment. Every forest, meadow and stream, every tree, child, river and lake, is a sacred gift from the Universe.
~ Christopher Chase
Mountain River, Carpathians, Ukraine – photo by Standret, bigstockphoto.com
…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
~ Arjuna Walia
Colorful Lotuses – photo by photirung, bigstockphoto.com
Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicates, that there is no separation in consciousness.
~ Russell Targ
Tree People, Central Park, NY – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
…May we re-imagine Earth as a living being. Please, may we know once again that Spirit fills the land, that the land is sacred. May we conjure a future in which our relationship with the Earth and her creatures is once again celebrated in stories and honored in ceremonies. May we affectionately attend to the voices of our own inner wildness as we fiercely tend the outer wildness around us to which we belong. That we, that she, might never be lonely again.
~ Betty Lou Chaika
Cerulean Geyser – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine how you would relate to the rest of the world if love was always moving through you.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
New York City Summer Beauty – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
…you are always part of the energy and life–the wholeness–of the world, not separate from it; as part of this wholeness, what you do–what you are–in the details of your daily life reflects and empowers the world of unity and peace, safety and blessing, that we wish to emerge everywhere.
~ David Spangler
Summer Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
~ Siddhartha Gautama
Sarasota, FL – photo by Carolyn Tricomi
People who believe that everything is fundamentally one differ in crucial ways from those who do not. In general, those who hold a belief in oneness have a more inclusive identity that reflects their sense of connection with other people, nonhuman animals, and aspects of nature that are all thought to be part of the same “one thing.”
~ Scott Barry Kaufman
Great Hornbill in Rainforest – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com
Imagine how the world will change when humanity realizes its interconnectedness with all life, and works together to restore the health and well being of the whole.
~ Nassim Haramein
Complexity of the Desert, Phoenix, AZ – photo by BCFC, bigstockphoto.com
