With a cosmology of a living universe, a shining miracle exists everywhere. There are no empty places in the world. Everywhere there is life, both visible and invisible. All of reality is infused with a vital presence and this creates a profound relatedness among all things.
~ Duane Elgin
Sunset, Broadpool, Swansea, South Wales, UK – photo by Leighton R, bigstockphoto.com
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
Central Park – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
~ Terence McKenna
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The basic principle seems to be: Everything in nature is here for a reason. And until we understand that reason, we better not just go around destroying things.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Peacock – photo by Karel Gallas, bigstockphoto.com
Blessing is not just the sharing of material resources or the doing of kindnesses. It’s an act of sharing spirit, an act of invoking, inviting, and involving a spiritual dimension. We all can do this. it’s our innate heritage as human beings.
~ David Spangler
Balsam Root Blooming in Cascades National Park, WA – photo by Marina Poushkina, bigstockphoto.com
…everything that has form in this world has a spiritual dimension…everything in this world is connected…everything we do to bring harmony, anywhere and at any time, has repercussions elsewhere.
~ Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by Anton Foltin, bigstockphoto.com
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
California Coast – photo by pikappa, bigstokphoto.com
…matter itself tingles with consciousness at the deepest level. It’s there in the cells of every living creature, even in molecules and atoms.
~ From Goodreads website in a review of Christian de Quincey, “Radical
Nature: The Soul of Nature”
Northern Spotted Owl in Green Forest – photo by Georgia Evans, bigstockphoto.com
In support of our deep, collective need to expand our understanding of reality, as well as awareness and acceptance of our oneness and interdependence…
~ Devadana Sanctuary
“Seeing beyond our filters—our accumulated knowledge and beliefs—does not always come naturally. We have spent years growing attached to them in various degrees, and they feel safe. Whatever we become attached to can begin to shape our future experiences and limit our perception of what exists outside our vocabulary. Like blinders on a horse, our attached beliefs limit our vision, and this in turn limits our perceived direction in life. The stronger our level of attachment, the less we can see.”
~ don Miguel Ruiz Jr
Aurora Lights, Sweden – photo by contas, bigstockphoto.com
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.
~ John O’Donohue
Loch Venachar, Scotland – photo by naumoid, bigstockphoto.com
We Originated in the Belly of a Star
Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
~Sergio Toporek, NASA Lunar Science Institute
Rainbows and clouds – photo by Aili, 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…
When you think more openly, when you see more of life and the possibilities of our oneness, then you tend to lead with kindness, warmth and connectedness – that connectedness shows up and manifests in ways you may never think would prove possible, and yet it does.
~ Amy Goldberg
Karst Peaks, Xingping Town, Li River, China – photo by Alex-VN, bigstockphoto.com
There is a special kind of shadow that happens in deep woods that are old and have been left undisturbed. Underneath the canopy of ancient hardwood trees the greens are deeper, the soil blacker, the smells richer. And there is a shadow that is over everything, calling out that there is a deeper world than the human of which we are a part. Something came out of that place and entered my body. I felt more whole, more human, more loved, more a part of the world. And in some indefinable way I knew who I was.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Early Morning Light, Mariposa Sequoia Grove, Yosemite, CA – photo by Rixie, bigstockphoto.com
Human intelligence and nature’s intelligence are seen as two aspects of an underlying unity, having their common source in the unified field.
~ David Nicol
Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts.
~ Ted Andrews
Lake Cave, Western Australia – photo by ZambeziShark, bigstockphoto.com
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