Divine wholeness is waiting to be lived. It includes every cell of creation, the wisdom within every plant and animal, the flow of the tides and the movement of the stars.
It is deep instinctual knowing about how the world works as a living, breathing, spiritual being. And it is very practical. This is not idealistic spiritual theory but a knowing that belongs to the basic principles of life: everything is sacred and can live in harmony and balance. In this balance the real needs of life are met, even though many of our self induced desires and addictions will have to be sacrificed. The world is not here to give us what we want: the world is an expression of divine love that needs us to help it to realize its full potential.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, “Including the Earth in Our Prayer”
Huangshan Mountains, South China – photo by margoria, bigstockphoto.com
Spirits are everywhere, and as we acknowledge their presence and honor and bless them—seeking counsel, support, and appropriate outcomes—we become more fully human; we help manifest the interconnectedness of everything; and we contribute to harmony, true being, and right action.
~ Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within
Scottish Highlands on A Rainy Day – photo by Alice D, bigstockphoto.com
We can give gifts of presence to each other, but first we need to see each other… We need to not let others be invisible in our presence. When this happens, blessings flow… and the world becomes a bit nicer, a bit more conscious, a bit more loved and loving.
~ David Spangler
Grand Teton Mountains at Sunrise – photio by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Integrity is remembering that as individuals we are indivisible from the whole process in which we are participating — the integral evolution of life and consciousness. Integrity is about embracing the paradox that while most of us live our lives in a state of consciousness that separates subject and objects, self and world, even humanity and nature, there is a deeper ground of being and becoming — a quantum-entangled, implicate order of fundamental interconnectedness and co-creative reciprocity. We are individual nodes of consciousness.
~Daniel Christian Wahl
Sunset, Moorea, Tahiti – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Here’s part three from The Three Beings…
Lastly we call on the beings of the future: All you who will come after us on this Earth, be with us now. All you who are waiting to be born in the ages to come, it is for your sakes too that we work to heal our world. We cannot picture your faces or say your names — you have none yet — but we feel the reality of your claim on life. It helps us to be faithful in the task that must be done, so that there will be for you, as there was for our ancestors: blue sky, fruitful land, clear waters.
~ Joanna Macy
Mount Rainier National Park, WA – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Here’s part two of “The Three Beings”…
We call also on the beings of the present: All you with whom we live and work on this endangered planet, all you with whom we share this brink of time, be with us now. Fellow humans and brothers and sisters of other species, help us open to our collective will and wisdom. Aloud and silently we say your names and picture your faces . . .
~ Joanna Macy
Great Heron at Dawn – photo by irongeezer, bigstockphoto.com
Today’s quotation—and what we’ll offer for the next three days—is from “World as Lover, World as Self”, by Joanna Macy. It’s called, The Three Beings. We’ll post one of each of the three beings over the next three days:
We call first on the beings of the past: Be with us now, all you who have gone before. You, our ancestors and teachers, who walked and loved and faithfully tended this Earth, be present to us now so that we may carry on the legacy you bequeathed us. Aloud and silently in our hearts we say your names and see your faces. . .
~ Joanna Macy
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT – photo by encrier, bigstockphoto.com
We seldom notice how each day is a holy placeWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,
Transforming our broken fragmentsInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.
Somewhere in us a dignity presides
That is more gracious than the smallness
That fuels us with fear and force,
A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.
So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown
And for the secret work
Through which the mind of the day
And wisdom of the soul become one.
~ John O’Donohue
Monument Valley Morning – photo by fullempty, bigstockphoto.com
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Sunrise, Poland – photo by Milosz_G, bigstockphoto.com
[Per Christopher Bache} …in certain profound states of inner work, the therapeutic effect of the healing process extends beyond the psyche of the individual to aspects of various collective levels of consciousness in which the individual is embedded…
…just as working through painful personal memories can bring therapeutic release for the individual, Bache argues that so might conscious engagement of collective trauma (by an individual in a very expanded state of consciousness) bring healing to the species mind.
~ David Nicol
Victoria Amazonica, Amazon Rainforest, Peru – photo by jkraft5, bigstockphoto.com
When a person projects a heart-coherent field filled with caring, love and attention, living organisms respond to the information in the field by becoming more responsive, open, affectionate, animated, and closely connected.
~ Stephen Buhner
Waterfalls, Plitvice Lakes, Croatia – photo by AdventureTraveler, bigstockphoto.com
And so it is this, we might say, that defines a shaman; the ability to readily slip out of the collective perceptual boundaries that define his or her culture—boundaries held in place by social customs, taboos, and especially the common language—in order to directly engage, and negotiate with, the multiple nonhuman sensibilities that animate the local earth.
~ David Abram
Full Moon Over Yosemite – photo by RodPhotography, bigstockphoto.com
Indigenous teachings embrace the divine feminine in a way that is crucial for healing the earth and ourselves. For thousands of years it has been known that everything that exists in this world is alive and has a spirit.
We are connected to a web of life that reflects the impact of the behavior of all that is alive. We can speak to the spirit of the trees, plants, rocks, rivers, animals, birds, insects, and reptiles and perceive their divine nature. As everything that exists is alive, each being also recognizes the divine in us. The earth is alive and is a sacred being. It is time for us to align with the heartbeat of the earth.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Zion National Park – photo by Dudarev Mikhail, bigstockphoto.com
What does it mean to say that nature is personal? In the broadest sense, it means choosing a different paradigm from the Western idea of nature as machine…It means holding the possibility that all things on Earth, even rocks and mountains, have their own will and intention.
~ Ursula LeGuin
Sella Mountains, Dolomites, Italy – photo by World Image, bigstockphoto.com
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