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Ritual for Creating A Home Altar

One of the ways that people in every setting can honor the sacred as part of daily living is to create an altar for their home. An altar need not be elaborate or expensive. It is a place in your home that you designate as a place of honor and respect, a place where you take the time to acknowledge the spirit of your home, thanking it for the gifts it offers you, and recognizing that it is part of the same life force as you.

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It is commonly known by indigenous people that high-frequency vibrations activate consciousness, nourish what is hungry or weak, heal what is sick, and invite in the most luminous forces of Nature.
 
~ Arkan Lushwala
 
Yosemite Valley in Winter – photo by Jeff Banke, bigstockphoto,com

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Our divine light is the light of the world, and our individual light relates directly to the light of the whole. This relationship of light to light belongs to the way that oneness works within the individual and within the world. The light within the individual and the light within the world are one light, a light that in calling to us also calls to itself, evokes itself, responds to itself…
 
When we step outside the self-protecting image of our separate self, we can directly participate in the work of the whole, the mystery of working together with the forces of creation and the light of the world.
 
We do not yet realize the profound significance of this relationship of our individual self to the whole. The two lights need each other for this urgent work that needs to be done now in the world.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Winter Sunset – photo by Paul Grecaud, bigstockphoto.com

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We can give gifts of presence to each other, but first we need to see each other… We need to not let others be invisible in our presence. When this happens, blessings flow… and the world becomes a bit nicer, a bit more conscious, a bit more loved and loving.
 
~ David Spangler
 
Evergreen Branches in Snow – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.
 
~ Terry Tempest Williams
 
Moonrise and Arch – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
 
~ Starhawk
 
Winter Forest – photo by Marina Pissarova, bigstockphoto.com

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We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet. We envision humans as a positive, healing presence on Earth, creating more abundance on the planet than would be possible without them. Our mission is to serve as a catalyst for a revolution in the way humans relate to the natural world.
 
~ Penny Livingston
 
Grand Canyon in Snow – photo by Eu Toch, bigstockphoto.com

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I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
 
~Mary Oliver
 
Forest River, Russia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…when we let love guide us we can become more aware of the oneness of life and recognize that how we are and what we do at an individual level affects the global environment, both outer and inner.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Queen Nefertiti Rock Canyon Park Avenue – Arches National Park, UT – photo by Bill Perry, bigstockphoto.com

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