Even though you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.
~ Oren Lyons
Autumn River – photo by jenyateua, bigstockphoto.com
Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.
~ Robin Craig Clark
Autumn Forest, Ukraine – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I’m overpowered by its scale. It’s so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m a part of it, tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us.
~ Carl Sagan
Starry Night Above Monument Valley, AZ – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
We are all activists, activating one story or another through the power of our attention and the way we participate in our communities. We can choose to activate and embody the story of separation or the story of interbeing. We can choose what kind of world we want to bring forth together with the people we are in contact with. We can ask ourselves:
What am I choosing to activate through the power of my attention?
How does my participation contribute to the world I would want to live in?
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Coral Diving, Papua, New Guinea – photo by desant7474, bigstockphoto.com
We are now called to respond with compassion and wisdom to meet the challenges of our world, fuelled by sacred energy to act to preserve our planet. This energy, burning in every cell of our hearts and minds, souls, and bodies, will give us the courage and vision to heal and transform the earth.
~ Andrew Harvey
Autumn, Finland Nature Reserve – photo by Teemu Tretjakov Photography, bigstockphoto.com
I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Keel-Billed Toucan, Rainforest of Belize – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
The elders say that the path of the Spirit always leads upward which is why many people give up trying to follow it. The steady climb becomes tiresome, especially if you are carrying a lot of baggage. Anger, suspicion, envy, greed: they all weigh us down. Over time they make going up to the high country harder and harder. The only choice we have is to turn around and walk downward, stop and stay where we are, or keep making the slow climb to the distant sunlight on the mountain tops. To do that, we have to lighten our own load, letting go of what is heavy on our soul. Then the climb becomes easier and our step becomes lighter. By the time we clear the tree line, we are almost flying.
~ Steven Charleston
Autumn Sunset, Mountain Lake, Russian Wilderness – photo by PrimePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
All the models [of fields of information and consciousness] share the understanding that there is a reciprocal relationship between the individual and the collective field, that is, the individual and the field are seen to mutually influence each other (the capacity of the individual to influence the collective field is obviously a crucial element in any theory of subtle activism)…
Such a process can be understood in terms of morphic resonance—the unified field being seen as common for all people, when it is activated in one person it begins to vibrate in another.
~ David Nicol
Iguazu Falls – photo by dabidy, bigstockphoto.com
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
~ Alex Grey
Autumn Colors – photo by firewings, bigstockphoto.com
One of the most important contributions of the ecological movement is that it has made us conscious of the interdependence of all forms of life, the delicate web of creation…Nor do we realize the degree to which our intention, our attitude, our individual participation can affect the life of the whole and the way the future will unfold.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Autumnal Forest, Macha Ragion, Czech Republic – photo by Jiri Igaz, bigstockphoto.com
Every being has its own voice. Every being enters into communion with other beings. This capacity for relatedness, for presence to other beings, for spontaneity in action, is a capacity possessed by every mode of being throughout the entire universe. So too every being has rights to be recognized and revered…
~ Thomas Berry
Giraffe at A River Bank – photo by mezzotint, bigstockphoto.com
Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
Sandstone Doorway, Ancient Buddhist Site – photo by Charles D, bigstockphoto.com
We are all part of the living being we call the Earth, ancient beyond our understanding, and yet we have forgotten the simple truth that the ground we walk on is sacred, as is the air we breathe, the water we drink. We have lost touch with the essential oneness that embraces all of life and its interconnected nature. All indigenous peoples and most civilizations before ours understood and lived this essential reality, when everyday life nourished the soul as well as the body. If we are to have real care for our home we need to remember the “Original Instructions” given to the First Peoples – how to get along with all of creation.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Autumn Sunrise, Dolomite Alps, Italy – photo by valio84sl, bigstockphoto.com
I have a message for you. It is a very simple message. One that I know you have heard before. But still it is important I deliver it because I don’t think any of us ever get tired of hearing it, especially since none of us ever get over needing it. It is a message from the Spirit and it simply says: do not be afraid for I will be with you all the days of your life. All the days. Not just some of the days. Days of darkness and days of light. Days of sorrow and days of joy. Through every day the Spirit is with you and will remain with you for as long as you live. It is the promise of the presence. The pledge of an unbroken love that binds us to the heart of the holy. Do not be afraid. Not today. Not any day. For the Maker of Days is with you and will stay with you forever.
~ Steven Charleston
Aurora Borealis, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
The ancient human-Earth relationship must be recovered in a new context, in its mystical as well as in its physical functioning. There is need for awareness that the mountains and rivers and all living things, the sky and its sun and moon and clouds all constitute a healing, sustaining sacred presence for humans which they need as much for their psychic integrity as for their physical nourishment…
~ Thomas Berry
Crater Lake National Park, OR – photo by stashek, bigstockphoto.com
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