Over the years, I’ve posted quite a few practices focused on water on my nancynapier.com website—practices that focus on the way that water absorbs and “remembers” the qualities of thought, emotion, and presence that touch it, on the importance of offering blessings to water whenever and wherever we encounter it. The other day, I read the following from a Facebook post by Water Transformations:
“Did you know that the thoughts you are thinking are establishing a frequency in the water in your body? If you are thinking loving thoughts, forgiving and compassionate thoughts, your BodyWater is circulating that throughout your body. That is why, when you are feeling good inside and counting your blessings, it seems easier to stay in a good mood. Conversely, if your thoughts are angry, frustrated, or self-critical, it is challenging to shift into happier feelings.”
For this week’s exploration, I invite you to act as if this quotation speaks an important truth and then notice how your relationship to water may change, deepen, or in some other way touch you in a meaningful way. View More
Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
~ Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Redwood Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
…the sacred is not some special, separate category of existence. It is not to be captured and tamed with fixed verbal structures of dogma and belief, or confined in man-made buildings. For sacredness is inherent in the very essence of life and the multiple patterns of its arising. Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.
~ Eleanor O’Hanlon
Sunrise – Yosemite National Park, photo from bigstockphoto.com
Our ethic must therefore be one of belonging, an imperative made all the more urgent by the many ways that human actions are fraying, rewiring, and severing biological networks worldwide. To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is therefore to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
~ David George Haskell, from The Songs of Trees: Stores from Nature’s Great Connectors
