Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
~ Lewis Thomas
Black Lava Rock Shoreline, Hawaii – photo by Steven Gaertner, bigstockphoto.com
The spirit of a time is an incredibly subtle, yet hugely powerful force. And it is comprised of the mentality and spirit of all individuals together. Therefore, the way you look at things is not simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on. When you give in to helplessness, you collude with despair and add to it. When you take back your power and choose to see the possibilities for healing and transformation, your creativity awakens and flows to become an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world. In this way, even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.
~ John O’Donohue
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
~ Nikola Tesla
Desert Sunset, Saguaro Cactus – photo by jasony00, bigstockphoto.com
Participatory consciousness emerges in relationship with an animate world, an ensouled universe with both a past and an unfolding future. Rivers and mountains, galaxies and microbes are physical and psychic presences with their own stories and longings…
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Smoky Mountain Stream – photo by digitalphotonut, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot do the work of transforming the world unless we are in interdependent relationships—the work is too vast and complex for any one of us…Let’s reach toward each other.
~ Akaya Windwood
Sunset, Lake Te Anau, New Zealand – photo by magann, bigstockphoto.com
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Lotus – photo by Peggy Braun
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is—just be a little kinder.
~ Aldous Huxley
Iceland Sunset – photo by Raghildur Jonsdottir
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
Spring Daffodils – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
~ Coretta Scott King
Kawaguchi Lake, Japan at Mt Fuji – photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we’re just planting a seed and we don’t know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It’s hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Redwood Forest, Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park, CA – photo by TNPhoto, bigstockphoto.com
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion…mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Plumeria-Fragipani Flowers – photo by KaziytaFahnizeer, bigstockphoto.com
…Gregory Matloff’s ideas are shocking. The veteran physicist at New York City College of Technology recently published a paper arguing that humans may be like the rest of the universe in substance and in spirit. A “proto-consciousness field” could extend through all of space, he argues. Stars may be thinking entities that deliberately control their paths. Put more bluntly, the entire cosmos may be self-aware.
~ Corey S. Powell
Night Sky, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Andriy Maygutyak, bigstockphoto.com
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
~ Martha Graham
Sunrise, Grand Teton Mountains – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Water isn’t just for drinking or washing.
Water has its own spirit.
Water is alive.
Water has memory.
Water knows how you treat it.
You should get to know water, too.
~ Wabinoquay Otsoquaywhan, Anishinaabe Nation
Iguazu Falls – photo by saiko3p, bigstockphoto.com
Over the centuries, human beings have come to care more about collecting material things than supporting Nature’s gifts, people and living creations. There has been a loss of our sense of the Sacredness of Life. We’ve placed more emphasis on wanting, getting, measuring and comparing than on living, loving, learning and being. What we’ve forgotten is that every life is precious and unique. Every day, every moment. Every forest, meadow and stream, every tree, child, river and lake, is a sacred gift from the Universe.
~ Christopher Chase
St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park – photo by kanonsky, bigstockphoto.com
