You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Norwegian Forest – photo by Mr. Smith bigstockphtoto.com
What one thought of kindness can I offer to this world today? What one act of kindness can I offer to those I encounter along the way today? If I were to choose to resonate with qualities of kindness today, what might change in my thinking, perceptions, and overall experience? What if I were to orient, again and again, to the frequency of kindness today, allowing it to be the filter through which I perceive my world, and seek to embody it in all my actions?
~ Nancy J. Napier
Buddha Head in Banyan Tree Roots, Thailand k- photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
From the standpoint of daily life…there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other…
~ Albert Einstein
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
I am only one
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not to refuse to do the something
that I can do.
~ Edward Everett Hale
White Cosmos Flowers – photo by Kowit Sitthi, bigstockphoto.com
The Light of the sacred is deep in all things. We will be well to the extent that we are one with this Light in one another and in the earth.
~ John Philip Newell
Sun Over the Horizon – photo by 212235046, bistockphoto.com
In a world that lives like a fist, mercy is no more than waking with your hands open.
~ Mark Nepo
Brooklyn Botanical Garden – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
~ L.R. Knost
The Promise of Each New Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.
~ Jean Houston
Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, NY – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
It’s almost impossible to be ‘healthy’ if you define it as a relationship with yourself without acknowledging that you’re part of a larger ‘culture’ including both the human and nonhuman.
~ Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
School of Butterflyfish, Coral Reef – photo by WhitcombeRD, bigstockphoto.com
The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.
~ Thomas Berry
Bighorn Sheep, Logan Pass, Glacier National Park – photo by Wirpec, bigstockphoto.com
…no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
~ Vaclav Smil
Forest Mushrooms – photo by stocdk_king, bigstockphoto.com
Lakota Instructions for Living (Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman)
Friend do it this way – that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.
~ Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
Park Avenue Section, Arches National Park, Utah – photo by Bill Perry, bigstockphoto.com
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
Enchanted Forest.jpg – photo by stock_king, bigstockphoto.com
We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important, is that you do care and you act.
~ Charlotte Lunsford
Drops of Water on Rose – photo by Kholywood, bigstockphoto.com
The air that wraps Earth is a single entity, the matrix that holds us all. It is a global commons from which we draw a crucial element of life, sharing as we do molecules that have been breathed in and out of every living thing that has ever breathed on Earth. Molecules that pass through us have passed through brontosaurs, neolithic hunters, Roman emperors, hummingbirds, snails.
~ David Suzuki
Sunrise Sky – photo by Skyynx, bigstockphoto.com
