I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the Universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica – photo by Dudarev Mkhail, bigstockphoto.com
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware—then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.
~ David Abram
Rufous-Necked Hornbill, Thailand – photo by Thipwan, bigstockphoto.com
Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.
~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Starry Night in Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
We have to have a new understanding that Earth and Nature are alive, they are intelligent, they have consciousness and they sustain life. We have to embrace this new paradigm if we want to live in harmony and in reverence of Nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Redwood Forest – photo by aLunaBlue, bigstockphoto.com
The great unspoken tragedy of the present time is that we have forgotten about the spiritual body of the earth. We have forgotten about the inner worlds. We have been censored. We live in a culture that has very, very efficiently told us that the outer physical world is all that exists. And even when we do spiritual practice and we discover our own spiritual self, there is often a blinker that stops us from then saying ‘this spiritual self must be part of the whole and what is the relationship I have to the whole?’ Once we make a relationship with the spiritual intelligence within creation—with the soul of the world—then we begin the groundwork, we begin the deeper healing.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
…it is clear that the models [of reality] we have examined are basically in alignment with each other in relation to the following principles that are fundamental for a theory of subtle activism:
1. Beneath the surface appearance of separate objects, there is a universal field of consciousness that is seen as an underlying ground and creative source of everything in existence.
2. Human individuals are embedded in this field, as well as in various kinds of social fields that correspond with different social units (family, city, nation, species, planet, etc.).
3. Individuals both influence these collective fields and are influenced by them.
4. The mechanism by which individual influence occurs can be explained in terms of morphic resonance (the influence of like upon like). [See the work of Rupert Sheldrake.]
~ David Nicol
Stone Circle from 3000 BC, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland – photo by AnnekaS, bigstockphoto.com
We’re not going to solve our own problems or the problems of the world the old way. The masculine ways, the ways of the warrior, of violence, don’t work. This is a historic time for women, and for the feminine. Women who welcome and live their own power can help shift the consciousness of the world, to bring out a more positive side of the feminine, to bring a new way of being into the world. Feminine spirit more than ever wants us to acknowledge its presence, wants us to be truthful and honest about where its energy is, and to use it to heal.
~ Sobonfu Somé
Coral Reef, Malenge Lagoon, Indonesia – photo by Fabio Lamanna, bigstockphoto.com
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mountain Forest – photo by shippee, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth
Is a sacred site.
All people are the chosen people,
And the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other,
And for the earth, for everything
Relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness,
May we radiate the light of love
And kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Teach Only Love, Facebook
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
~ Terry Brooks
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Far-Away Galaxy, Hubble Space Telescope – photo from NASA
Time and space. In the desert there is space. Space is the twin sister of time. If we have open space then we have open time to breathe, to dream, to dare, to play, to pray to move freely, so freely, in a world our minds have forgotten but our bodies remember. Time and space. This partnership is holy. In these redrock canyons, time creates space—an arch, an eye, this blue eye of sky. We remember why we love the desert; it is our tactile response to light, to silence, and to stillness.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”
Queen Nefertiti Rock, Arches National Park – photo by BillPerry, bigstockphoto.com
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past, or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hvitserkur, Vatnsnes Peninsula, Iceland – photo by jojjik, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot assume the sacredness nor spiritual livingness of the earth or accept it as a new ideology or as a sentimentally pleasing idea…We must allow it to shape us, as great spiritual ideas have always shaped those who entertain them…It is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.
~ David Spangler
Early Spring Landscape, Yosemite National Park – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
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