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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. For these reasons it is natural to feel we might learn wisdom from them, to haunt about them with the idea that if we could only read their silent riddle rightly we should learn some secret vital to our own lives; or even, more specifically, some secret vital to our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.
 
~ Kim Taplin, Tongues in Trees
 
1000-Year-Old Linden Tree – photo by Andy Hoech, bigstockphoto.com

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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete … They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are OTHER NATIONS, caught up with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
 
~ Henry Beston
 
Bighorn Sheep, Glacier National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The Ancient Rhythms of the Earth
 
The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. When we emerge from our offices, rooms and houses, we enter our natural element. We are children of the earth; people to whom the outdoors is home. Nothing can separate us from the vigour and vibrancy of this inheritance. In contrast to our frenetic, saturated lives, the earth offers a calming stillness. The patience of nature enjoys the ease of trust and hope. There is something in our clay nature that needs to continually experience this ancient, outer ease of the world. It helps us remember who we are and why we are here.
 
~ John O’Donohue
 
Sun and Forest, Czechoslovakia – photo by Ko Tangens, bigstockphoto.com

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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear, people who can open to the web of life that called us into being, and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.

~ Joanna Macy

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The communication of the world did not occur in the visible realm of Newton, but in the subatomic world of Werner Heisenberg. Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies. The brain perceived and made its own record of the world in pulsating waves. A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else. People are indivisible from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated entity.
 
~ Lynn McTaggart
 
Creek in Rainforest Morning Mist – photo by Greg Brave, bigstockphoto.com

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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and the man, all belong to the same family.
 
~ Chief Seattle
 
Sedona Canyon Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Your heart is not your own. Ownership is an attribute of mind. There is only one heart in the whole universe. It is the same heart experienced in different degrees by all life. A New Earth is possible when we drop into the freedom of our shared heart. But if we stay on the balcony of the mind — we will only end up painting the same old wounds on a dark and crowded canvas of the future.

~ James O’Dea

Lotus – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
 
~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer
 
Rainbow – photo by Anton Petrus, bigstockphoto.com

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We need first to acknowledge that the world is a spiritual being, just as you acknowledge for yourself that you are a spiritual being. And the next is to recognize the mysterious relationship between the individual and the world, known traditionally as microcosm and macrocosm, in which every human being is the microcosm of the whole.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Yosemite Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what is good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
 
~ Wendell Berry
 
Morning, Garden of the Gods – photo by Mike Blanchard, bigstockphoto.com

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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
 
~ John Muir
 
California Coast Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the un-manifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness.
 
~ Eckhart Tolle
 
Cathedral Cove, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The human psyche and human spirit are not some addition to the Universe, but have emerged out of the Universe itself…the Universe is one with itself, throughout its expansion in space and through all of its changes in time. It’s a single unity; you might say a single acting self.
 
~ Sister Miriam MacGillis, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
 
Manai Fall, Takachiho Gorge, Japan – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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