Over a number of years now, I’ve engaged in practices that help to develop a more heart-centered awareness, a shift from always being in the head/mental brain to the perception and intelligence that lives in the heart. For this week’s exploration, I invite you to play with these two “brains” and to notice the quality of your experience when you focus your awareness in your heart brain rather than your head brain. View More
We live in a world where everything is connected. We can no longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it’s all about WE.
~ Gregg Braden
Winter Landscape, Ontario Canada – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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It is true that many of the old ways have been lost.
But, just as the rains restore the earth after a drought,
so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way
and give new life.
We ask that this happen not just for the Red People,
but for all people,
that they all might live.
In ignorance and carelessness they
have walked on Ina Maka, Our Mother.
They did not understand that they are part of all beings,
the Four-legged, the Winged, Grandfather Rock,
the Tree People, and our Star Brothers.
Now our Mother and all our Relations are crying out.
They cry for the help of all people.
~ Black Elk
Grand Canyon Sunset – photo by R. Wallace, bigstockphoto.com
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Winter Morning – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Are we prepared to embrace a new story of life and civilization, one that is radically different to our present story of a consumer-driven culture based upon exploitation and the myth of continual economic progress? Many people today long for such a new story, one that recognizes the Earth as a single interconnected living whole to which we belong. This is a story that nourishes our deeper selves with a sense of connection to the sacred and to the wonder and joy of life that is our heritage.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
There are theoretical descriptions showing how tasks can be accomplished by entangled groups without the members of the group communicating with each other in any conventional way…Some even propose that the entire universe is a single, self-entangled object.
~ Dean Radin
Milky Way in Granitoe, Ukraine – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Everything you see has its roots In the unseen world.
The forms may change
Yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish, Every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is Eternal, Growing, branching out,
Giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep?
That Source is within you
And this whole world Is springing up from it.
The Source is full, Its waters are ever-flowing;
Do not grieve,
Drink your fill!
Don’t think it will ever run dry,
This is the endless Ocean.
~ Rumi
Beach at Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Exploration #2
David Spangler has an exercise that I really like and I’d like to share my adaptation of it for you to explore over the next week. It involves transmitting the essence and energy of love to everything around you. Remember that most of these explorations arise from the assumption that everything we encounter is alive and conscious, in the sense that all are expressions of the One Life that is all that is. Saying that everything is conscious doesn’t mean everything experiences and expresses the same kind of consciousness. Different frequencies and different qualities of essence no doubt generate different kinds of consciousness. The underlying assumption, however, is that there is One Consciousness and that we are all participants in that One. View More
It appears consciousness can play a very important role in changing our planet. Just having these thoughts alone could contribute to the massive shift in consciousness that’s occurring. Find your inner peace, be peace, be love, acting and living your life from such a place plays a very important role in changing the world.
~ Arjun Walia
Tropical Rainforest, Sabah, Borneo – photo by Kim Briers, bigstockphoto.com
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.
~ Parker Palmer
Snow in Bryce Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com
When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.
~ Oren Lyons
Yosemite in Snow – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
There is an ancient and on-going human tradition of non-duality. A form reminiscent of Advaita Vedanta teaches that to view ourselves as having a separate consciousness within that looks out on a world without is an illusion…There is only one consciousness. This consciousness permeates the Universe. Planetary psychology limits itself to the study of how humans relate spiritually to universal consciousness as it has been expressed by the planet. All physicality expresses the one consciousness limited only by the number and variety of sensory apparatus that has evolved.
~ David J. Chalmers
Farmer and Buffalo – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The opening of sensory gating channels more widely leads to a thinning of the boundary between self and nonself. It enables the movement of consciousness from a static sense of us being in a place to our immersion in a scenario. It allows immersion within the metaphysical background of the world.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Winter Forest River at Sunset – photo by Den Blitsky, bigstockphoto.com
At this moment, the cells of our bodies are buzzing with activity, maintaining the processes of life. In a similar manner, our cities, businesses and communities are continuously maintaining and recreating themselves. All around us, the creative awareness inhabiting Nature looks out from countless points of view– tasting, touching, moving and sensing this multidimensional wonder we inhabit.
~ Christopher Chase
Mangrove Trees, Cambodia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The next step in our collective evolution is to recognize the divinity of life with a consciousness that sees and knows the One at the heart of the many, to reclaim an ancient knowing of life’s sacredness.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Sunset, Cuyabeno Lagoon, Amazon – photo by Alejo Miranda, bigstockphoto.com
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