It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Grand Canyon Sunrise – photo by maverick888, bigstockphoto.com
Our individual spiritual journey is part of the world’s journey. To deny this is to live inside the illusion of separation. A simple awareness of oneness unites us with all of life, with every stone, every insect, every dream almost lost before waking. We are life itself, breathing, suffering, rejoicing. We are the pain of the sick and the laughter of the child. We are neither better nor worse than any particle of creation. Our hunger for the Source, our search for the Divine, is life’s hunger, life’s search. We need to give our journeying back to life and acknowledge the oneness that unites everything. Nothing is separate. All is One.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Monument Valley Sunset – photo by cta88, bigstockphoto.com
Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and value.
~ Thomas Berry
Snowy Owl in Flight – photo by photoguy66, bigstockphoto.com
Watching their cycles of growth, shedding of leaves, and re-flowering in the spring, people have long perceived trees as powerful symbols of life, death, and renewal. Since the beginning of time, humans have had a sense that trees are sentient beings just like us, that they can feel pain, that they bleed when they are hurt. Trees even look like us. People have a trunk; trees have arms. And so we innately feel a deep connection to them.
Many people say they can feel a tree’s vibrational energy when placing their hand upon its bark. With their deep roots, trees carry significant grounding energy. We naturally feel peace and serenity when walking in the shade of trees or on a forest trail.
~ Judith Shaw
Redwood Forest – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
…spirituality can give us an actual experience of the unity of all things. This experience, when nurtured as a constant practice, roots equality-consciousness, non-discrimination, non-violence and reverence for all people and the earth deep into our core.
~ Michael Edwards
Stokksnes Mountains, Vestrahorn Cape, Iceland – photo by Mr. Smith, bigstockphoto.com
The true human can tune to the voice of the river and give it expression. The true human can tune to the voice of the wind and speak the words that the wind cannot speak without human tongue. The true human can blend with the essences of the forest, the spirits of the rain, the spirits of every creeping, crawling, living thing and can represent them fairly and evoke from them the best that they can be.
~ Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes
Coastal Sunset – photo by Adrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
We breathe in oxygen given to us by the trees, drink water from lakes and springs, take in materials from trees and plants that grow in the earth, their leaves gathering energy from our local star, the sun. Every moment of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not, we live in unity and intimate connection with the creative wisdom of the natural world.
~ Christopher Chase, “Shifting Paradigms: Aligning with the Wisdom of Nature”
Summer morning – photo by Dzmitrock, bigstockphoto.com
All things in the universe are one. They began as one. They may end as one. They are all made of the same basic matter/energy, and they interact with one another, constantly.
All things on earth are one: plants, animals, rocks, oceans and atmosphere. All living creatures had a common origin, all depend on each other, and shape and are shaped by non-living things. Life has radically altered the earth’s atmosphere, and molded many aspects of its geology. The Gaia system is an organic evolving whole embracing the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
~ Paul Harrison
Horshoe Bend, Glen Canyon, AZ – photo by holbox, bigstockphoto.com
With a cosmology of a living universe, a shining miracle exists everywhere. There are no empty places in the world. Everywhere there is life, both visible and invisible. All of reality is infused with a vital presence and this creates a profound relatedness among all things.
~ Duane Elgin
Sunset, Broadpool, Swansea, South Wales, UK – photo by Leighton R, bigstockphoto.com
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
Central Park – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
~ Terence McKenna
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The basic principle seems to be: Everything in nature is here for a reason. And until we understand that reason, we better not just go around destroying things.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Peacock – photo by Karel Gallas, bigstockphoto.com
Blessing is not just the sharing of material resources or the doing of kindnesses. It’s an act of sharing spirit, an act of invoking, inviting, and involving a spiritual dimension. We all can do this. it’s our innate heritage as human beings.
~ David Spangler
Balsam Root Blooming in Cascades National Park, WA – photo by Marina Poushkina, 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
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by Anton Foltin, bigstockphoto.com
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
California Coast – photo by pikappa, bigstokphoto.com
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