We talk often about the ripple effects of kind acts. Science is now confirming that kindness is actually contagious because seeing others perform acts of kindness elicits a natural neurochemical response within us which makes us act more altruistically towards others. This phenomenon is called “moral elevation”. Even watching acts of kindness can improve pathways in our brain!
~ KindSpring.org
Lupine Flowers, Stokksnes Cape, Iceland – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
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
Sangay Volcano, Ecuador – photo by A.P.S. Photography, bigstockphoto.com
There is a soul force in the Universe, which if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
~ Mahatma Ghandi
Yosemite National Park, CA – photo by Radomir Rezny, bigstockphoto.com
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Starry Night – photo by aslysun, bigstockphoto.com
May the energy emanating
from every step I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every breath I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every action I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every thought, action,
word and deed of all humanity
re-sanctify the Earth.
And so, by this exchange
of blessings may grow,
in symbiosis,
the consciousness of Oneness.
~ Ann Palmer
Monument Valley – photo by fotomak, bigstockphoto.com
The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term ‘Gaia’ is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. And the world of bacteria is critical to the details of these feedback processes, because bacteria play a crucial role in the regulation of the whole Gaian system.
~ Fritjof Capra
Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile – photo by allen.g, bigstockphoto.com
Be present as the watcher of your mind — of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don’t judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don’t make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Yu Long River, Guilin, China – photo by liufuyu, bigstockphoto.com
It’s easy to believe in magic when you’re young. Anything you couldn’t explain was magic then. It didn’t matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible — elves probably more so.
~ Charles de Lint
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
…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
Russula Mushroom, Costa Rican Jungle – photo by Kevin Wells Photography, bigstockphoto.com
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Zhangjiajie Forest Park, China – photo by Breev Sergey, bigstockphoto.com
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
We serve others and expand our love past our small circle to include the greater collective…We all have a special vibration that contributes to the whole when we operate from our heart space.
~ Doc Childre
Vast and Powerful Iguazu Falls – photo by Nolleks86, bigstockphoto.com
We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions of how to live on earth. It’s the Hopi belief, it’s our belief, that if you are not spiritually connected to the earth, and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on earth, it’s likely that you will not make it…
In the Hopi prophecy they say the storms and floods will become greater. To me it’s not a negative thing to know that there will be great changes. It’s not negative, it’s evolution. When you look at it as evolution, it’s time, nothing stays the same. You should learn how to plant something. That is the first connection.
You should treat all things as spirit, realize that we are one family. It’s never something like the end. It’s like life, there is no end to life.
~ Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Monument Valley Sunset – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
~ Vijali Hamilton
Sunlight in the Forest – photo by everest comunity, bigstockphoto.com
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Costa Rican Sunset – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
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