Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other… By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Winter Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
~ John Muir
Tree and Milky Way – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Redeveloping the capacity for heart-centered cognition can help each of us reclaim personal perception of the living and sacred intelligence within the world, within each particular thing.
~ Stephen Buhner
Lotus Blossoms – photo from bigstockphoto.com
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Elves in the Park, Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir, used with permission
There are so many other worlds. Sometimes when you hold special rocks, you can hear them.
~ Rainbow Wolf, age 6
Bryce Canyon National Park in Snow – photo by Sue Smith, bigstockphoto.com
Plants distribute all along the body the functions that in animals are concentrated in single organs. Whereas in animals almost the only cells producing electrical signals are in the brain, the plant is a kind of distributed brain in which almost every cell is able to produce them.” Underestimating plants can be very dangerous, he says, “because our life depends on plants and our actions are destroying their environments.
~ Stefano Mancuso
Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire Universe.
~ Henri Matisse
Winter Landscape, Michigan – photo by D. Pennala, bigstockphoto.com
Exploration #5
Every living being constantly radiates its essence, its “energy signature” into the environment in every moment. And, we are no exception. The frequencies with which we resonate as a matter of course determine the quality of energy we radiate into the environment, and this week’s exploration invites you to pay attention to what you send out to the world, as well as to the frequencies with which you generally resonate. The frequencies, qualities, and intentions with which you resonate not only shape your experience, they also align you with subtle beings, some of whom are collaborators, who resonate with those same frequencies. View More
…my being partakes of your being and that of all beings. This goes beyond interdependency-our very existence is relational…therefore, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.
~ Charles Eisenstein, from The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Setting Sun on Half Dome, Yosemite – photo from bigstockphoto.com
If we are being the very thing we would like the world to become, we will already be at peace.
~ Adyashanti
Winter Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
~ Elizaeth Goudge
Timber Wolves in Snow – photo by Josef Pitner, bigstockphoto.com
Many…thinkers are suggesting that our consciousness is gradually shifting from valuing hyperindividualism and independence to embracing interdependence and kinship on a vast scale. This will take time, but the ecological sciences are showing us the interconnectedness of life systems.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme
Cathedral Rock, Sedona, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth’s atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.
~ James Lovelock
Rainforest, Borneo – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Traditional Koyukon people live in a world that watches, in a forest of eyes. A person moving through nature-however wild, remote, even desolate the place may be-is never truly alone. The surroundings are sensate, personified. They feel. They can be offended. And they must, at every moment, be treated with the proper respect.
~ Richard Nelson
Trees and Waterfall, Yosemite – photo from bigstockphoto.com
If the sacred gift of earth is life, then water is the custodian of life. Nearly all living beings contain large amounts of water in their bodies; water facilitates their functions. Atmospheric space, too, consists of elements of water in vapor or in gaseous form. Therefore, water is the reconnecting element between our materialistic life and the spiritual world.
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