It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Earth, Teach Me
Earth teach me quiet as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness as dry fields weep with rain.
~ Ute Prayer
Sunset, Lake Te Anau, New Zealand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The Amazon rain forest draws water from the ground and releases the moisture into the atmosphere through a process called transpiration. Transpiration is evaporation, but it is evaporation of water that has gone through the trees. Think of it like blood in our veins—but unlike blood, the tree water is then pushed up into the sky as a kind of water vapor…
If correct, the [bionic pump] theory would explain how the deep interiors of forested continents get as much rain as the coast, and how most of Australia turned from forest to desert. It suggests that much of North America could become desert—even without global warming. The idea makes it even more vital that we recognize the crucial role forests play in the well-being of the planet.
~ New Scientist: Rainforests May Pump Winds Worldwide
Amazon Rainforest, Brazil – photo by Frazao, bigstockphoto.com
The world is preparing for a big change and the responsibility to bring this about lies with us… Our progress is not measured by the amount of inventions we create…but by the amount of the world that we are able to reintegrate and recognize as ourselves.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Bull Elk at Sunrise – photo from bigstockphoto.com
At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Aurora Reflections, Stokksnes Black Beach, Iceland – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Life now includes the larger life of the earth, individual freedom requires responsibility to community, and happiness is being defined as more than material goods. A sense of a larger common good is emerging: the future of the planet and its fragile biosphere.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Sunset, Winter Mountain – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
Life always gives us an opportunity and a choice. For those who can read the signs it is not difficult to see that great changes are constellating in the inner and outer worlds. We can see it in the unprecedented loss of species as well as in global political changes suddenly happening around us. Many of us also sense it in our dreams—see an inner tsunami coming. What really matters is that we are awake in this moment of our planet’s time. Are we like the Mokan, attentive to the changes happening around us, and thus able to access a deeper wisdom that knows how to respond. Or will we be like the sailors who were destroyed by the tsunami, “who did not know how to look.”
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Sunrise, Mount Kanchenjungha, Himalayan Mountain Range – photo by Rudra Narayan Mitra, bigstockphoto.com
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
~ Vaclav Havel
Baobob Trees, Madagascar – photo by Dudarev Mikhail, bigstockphoto.com
Reality is woven from strange, “holistic” threads that aren’t located precisely in space or time. Tug on a dangling loose end from this fabric of reality, and the whole cloth twitches, instantly, throughout all space and time…The bottom line is that physical reality is connected in ways we’re just beginning to understand…When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves.
~ Dean Radin
Sunrise, Bungan Beach, Australia – photo from 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, “Radical Nature: The Soul of Nature”
Grand Canyon at Dusk – photo from bigstockphoto.com
…in reality everything in the universe is deeply interconnected. Experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that subatomic particles are able to communicate instantly with one another, regardless of the distances that separate them.
~ Duane Elgin
Milky Way, Manaslu, Himalayas – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
To the Western mind, participation with the non-human Others and with the numinous might suggest mysticism, or something unavailable to ordinary people. Yet this kind of participation is, even now, an everyday mode of being for at least some people—indigenous and others—who have not entirely succumbed to the age of reason.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Hvitserkur in the Midnight Sun, Iceland – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Animal communicators have most likely existed for a long time, probably in every single culture in the world. It is only in our modern Western materialistic culture, which has been influenced by mainstream institutions of religion and science based on perceiving a reality of separateness, that such a possibility seems so outlandish. However…animal communication, also known as interspecies communication, is a very real phenomenon.
~ Makie Freeman
Giraffe, South Africa – photo by Chris Kruger, bigstockphoto.com
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery…The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.
~ Jeremy Narby, “The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Zion National Park, Utah – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
We seldom notice how each day is a holy placeWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,Transforming our broken fragmentsInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.
Somewhere in us a dignity presidesThat is more gracious than the smallnessThat fuels us with fear and force,A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.
So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknownAnd for the secret workThrough which the mind of the dayAnd wisdom of the soul become one.
~ John O’Donohue
Halong Bay, Vietnam – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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