The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.
~ David Spangler
Forest Morning – photo by Aleksander, 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
Camel Butte, Monument Valley – photo by travelview, bigstockphoto.com
For each act of hatred that makes the news, a dozen of acts of goodness go unseen in our world.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
Gunung Sibayak Volcano, Sumatra, Indonesia – photo by Pav-Pro-Photograph, bigstockphoto.com
…nature teems with consciousness through and through. Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit, and therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred to its deepest roots.
~ Christian de Quincey
Duncanby Head Cliffs, Northern Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Bryce Canyon Sunrise – photo by Ibryan, bigstockphoto.com
We must relinquish our convenient narratives of human exceptionalism and triumphalism – those stories that centralize human agency and enthrone human interests as supremely paramount in the multiverse. And we must do this not simply because we are now regaining some awareness about the nobility of other species and life forms – and not entirely because we are ourselves now humbled by our less than spectacular origins, but mainly because these times of upheaval call on us to revisit what is implied in being human. Do we continue to insist that we are lords over all, masters of the universe – uniquely distanced from the fleshy, dirty discourses of ‘nature’ – ravaging plagues burning soil and earth into asphalted forms of our own making? Or do we recognize our relatedness to all things, our real dependence on the land we supposedly transcend, and that to be human is not a magisterial decree of isolation, but a chorus…a syncretic process of shared ecological participation?
~ Bayo Akomolafe
South Central Alaska – photo by Troutnut, bigstockphoto.com
Nature has been experimenting with fungi for a billion years, perfecting a lot of powerful survival tools. We can use these tools in fantastic ways—to revive damaged ecosystems, to help offset global warming, and even to prevent diseases.
~ Paul Stamets
Forest Mushrooms – photo by MakcouD, bigstockphoto.com
The universe is always speaking to us…Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
~ Nancy Thayer
Rainbow in Monument Valley – photo by kavram, 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
Milky Way Over the Italian Aps – photo by Fabio Lamanna, bigstockphoto.com
There are also all the subtle realms. For some extraordinary reason, we as a culture have dismissed, forgotten rejected. And yet they belong to all of the different spiritual traditions—the shaman who works with the spirit world, the Tibetan Buddhist who works with deities, devas, and the land, or the Christian monk who prays to angels and icons of the saints, and even the Zen monk immersed in the Void in this realm
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Interview with David Nicole
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
~ Nelson Mandela
Sunrise, Huangshan Mountains, China – photo by bamboome, bigstockphoto.com
We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth’s beings.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Sunrise at Hunt’s Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by aiisha, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet EarthIs 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
Earth – photo from NASA
Throw a pebble into a pond. It sends a shiver across the surface of the water. Ripples merge into one another and create new ones. Everything is inextricably interrelated. We come to realize that we are responsible for everything we do, say, or think, responsible in fact for ourselves, everyone and everything else, and the entire universe.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Mangrove Forest, Phang Nga Bay, Ao Phang Nga National Park, Thailand – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com
If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Aurora Over Stokksnes Black Beach, Iceland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
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