In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
~ William Blake
Godafoss Waterfall, Iceland – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
In our quest for happiness and the avoidance of suffering, we are all fundamentally the same, and therefore equal. Despite the characteristics that differentiate us—race, language, religion, gender, wealth and many others—we are all equal in terms of our basic humanity.
~ H.H. the Dalai Lama
Foggy Autumn Morning – photo by Kiya, 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
Ang Thong National Marine Park, Thailand – photo by Gladkov, bigstockphoto.com
This is the Earth, healed again, growing green and blue. I want you to remember this exactly as it is, and then go and tell the people that if enough of us hold this image in their minds, we can heal the Earth and make it like it was a long time ago.
~ Rolling Thunder
Red Rock Mountains, Coconino National Forest, AZ – photo by hpbfotos, bigstockphoto.com
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
~ Carl Sagan
Milky Way – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Sun, Sky, Sea, Land – photo by West Coast Scapes, bigstockphoto.com
What is missing in mainstream consciousness is an awareness of ourselves as members of the human family, the Universe and the Earth community. We tend to ignore that our cells and bodies are part of the creative history of evolution. That our atoms are part of the history of the Cosmos. Peace and gratitude arise naturally in our hearts when we take more time to reflect upon how we are each a part of a much greater whole…
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein
Northern Lights, Alaska – photo by JCB5754, bigstockphoto.com
Grateful eyes look at each thing as if they had never seen it before and caress it as if they would never see it again.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
Yosemite National Park, CA – photo by CreativeEdge, bigstockphoto.com
There are many reasons why recognizing the sentience and intelligence of plants may have positive implications for the future of humanity. For one, it helps us all to transcend the dominant worldview that non-human life forms are best defined in strictly mechanistic terms, and that attributing a “life essence” or consciousness to them is a form of magical thinking.
~ Sayer Ji
Tropical Jungle, Thailand – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
…the intermediaries between the human community and the more-than-human community — the animals, the plants, the trees, even whole forests are considered to be living, intelligent forces. Even the winds and the weather patterns are seen as living beings. Everything is animate. Everything moves. It’s just that some things move slower than other things, like the mountains or the ground itself. But everything has its movement, has its life. And the magicians [shamans/healers] were precisely those individuals who were most susceptible to the solicitations of these other-than-human shapes. It was the magicians who could most easily enter into some kind of rapport with another being, like an oak tree, or with a frog.
~ An excerpt from ‘The Ecology of Magic’, a Scott London Interview with David Abram, anthropologist, philosopher, magician and author of The Spell of the Sensuous.
Jungle Ocelot, Belize – photo by Tami Freed, bigstockphoto.com
Spiritual ecology is about a shift in consciousness, a return to the sacred that embraces and infuses all of creation. Rather than a soulless, materialistic world, it envisions a living universe resonant with wonder and meaning.
~ Fr. Richard Rohr
Autumn Colors – photo by eric1513, bigstockphoto.com
In indigenous, tribal, or oral cultures, magic is the way of the world. There is nothing that is not in some way magic, because the fact that the world exists is already quite a wonder. That it stays existing, that it continually keeps holding itself in existence, this is the mystery of mysteries. Magic is the way of the world. It’s that sense of being in contact with so many other shapes of awareness, most of which are so different from our own, that is the basic experience of magic from which all other forms of magic derive.
~ An excerpt from ‘The Ecology of Magic’, a Scott London Interview with David Abram, anthropologist, philosopher, magician and author of The Spell of the Sensuous.
Rock Pillars, Bryce Canyon, UT – photo by SMJoness, bigstockphoto.com
Each of us brings something alive in the world that no one else can. There is a profound necessity at the heart of individuality. When your life awakens and you begin to sense the destiny that brought you here, you endeavor to live a life that is generous and worthy of the blessing and invitation that is always calling you.
~ John O’Donohue
Yosemite Valley, CA – photo isogood, bigstockphoto.com
It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
~ The Dalai Lama
Autumn Forest – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
What is wrong with our culture is that it offers us an inaccurate conception of the self. It depicts the personal self as existing in competition with and in opposition to nature. [We fail to realise that] if we destroy our environment, we are destroying what is in fact our larger self.
~ Freya Matthew
Costa Rica, Caribbean Coast – photo by Dudarev Mikhail, bigstockphoto.com
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