If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware — then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.
~ David Abram
Monument Valley – photo by lofoto, bigstockphoto.com
When we are quiet at home, as children of the Earth, each one of us has an opportunity to listen to the body we belong to, and to decide how to participate in the change, how to adapt to it, what sacrifices to make for good, how to be happy with less material comfort and more community, more solidarity, and a much stronger sense of connection to the sacredness of nature.
~ Arkan Lushwala, Peruvian Ceremonial Leader
Forest Evening Sun – photo by LegART, bigstockphoto.com
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
~ Willis Harmon
Morning Light, Garden of the Gods, Colorado – photo by pilgrims49, bigstockphoto.com
We drop like pebbles of each other’s souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.
~ Joan Borysenko
Dawn of A New Day – photo by TinasDreamworld, bigstockphoto.com
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Yosemite Valley, CA – photo by Gary Tognoni, bigstockphoto.com
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Theresa
Cathedral Cave, New Zealand – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
There’s only one being shining out of all of our eyes. We spend all day finding reasons to hate people or feel better than other people, but it’s not true. There’s only one being.
~ Krishna Das
Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us. Given this opportunity, we can raise ourselves. We must join hands with the rest of Creation and speak of Common Sense, Responsibility, Brotherhood, and PEACE. We must understand that The Law is the Seed and only as True Partners can we survive.
~ Oren Lyons
Canyonlands National Park, Utah – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild Good Island, Glacier National Park – photo by mlorenz, bigstockphoto.com
What I know in my bones is that I forgot to take time to remember what I know. The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Kawaguchi Lake, Japan at Mt. Fuji – photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the Universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica – photo by Dudarev Mkhail, bigstockphoto.com
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware—then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.
~ David Abram
Rufous-Necked Hornbill, Thailand – photo by Thipwan, 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
Starry Night in Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
We have to have a new understanding that Earth and Nature are alive, they are intelligent, they have consciousness and they sustain life. We have to embrace this new paradigm if we want to live in harmony and in reverence of Nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Redwood Forest – photo by aLunaBlue, bigstockphoto.com
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