The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a world that honors the servant, but has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein
Mossy Forest – Pacific Nothwest Rainforest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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Whereas reason dominates feeling, mystical knowing does not “conquer” reason – it envelops it, embraces it, transcends it. Thus, mystical or spiritual intuition is integrative: It includes, while transcending, both reason and somatic feeling.
~ Christian de Quincey, “Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship”
La Sal Mountains, Arches National Park, UT – photo by Dean Fikar, bigstockphoto.com
We also need this capacity to see that the present moment is not the final word, that there is always the possibility that we can transcend our own limitations – the planet, the Earth, the society can do that.
~ Sister Miriam MacGillis, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Sunrise over Hanuauma Bay, Hawaii – photo by Island Leigh, bigstockphoto.com
Indigenous peoples are place-based societies, and at the center of those places are the most sacred of our sites, where we reaffirm our relationships…Everywhere there are Indigenous people, there are sacred sites, there are ways of knowing, there are relationships.
~ Winona LaDuke, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Yosemite Valley in Winter – photo from bigstockphoto.com
We can be inspired by [the] scientific view of nested interdependence – from galaxies and stars to planets and ecosystems – so that we sense how personally we are woven into the fabric of life. We are part of this ongoing journey…We can thus recognize ecological, economic, and social change as not only necessary but inevitable.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Milky Way in the Alps – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term ‘Gaia’ is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. And the world of bacteria is critical to the details of these feedback processes, because bacteria play a crucial role in the regulation of the whole Gaian system.
~ Fritjof Capra
Green Forest, Phuket, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
~ Willis Harmon
Fairy Cave – Borneo – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The evolutionary life impulse moves us forward from viewing ourselves as isolated individuals and competing nation states to realizing our collective presence as a species with a common origin story and shared destiny.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme, “Spiritual Ecology”
Forest Winter Landscape – photo by Yanika, bigstockphoto.com
If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Ocean Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Sahalie Falls, McKenzie River Natl Recreation Trail, photo by Christopher Boswell, 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
Monument Valley, AZ – photo from 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!
Dont think it will ever run dry,
This is the endless Ocean.
~ Rumi
Foggy Morning with Fir Trees – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Altruistic activity is one of the most potent factors that can strengthen a persons immune system and boost longevity…Altruism and cooperation are two key survival factors for our species.
~ John Stanley and David Loy, “Spiritual Ecology”
Arizona Desert Sunset – photo by Jeni Foto, bigstockphoto.com
Had the new people learned what Original Man was taught at a council of animals – never damage Creation, and never interfere with the sacred purpose of another being – the eagle would look down on a different world. The salmon would be crowding up the rivers, and passenger pigeons would darken the sky. Wolves, cranes, Nehalem, cougars, Lenape, old-growth forests would still be here, each fulfilling their sacred purpose. I would be speaking Potawatomi. We would see what Nanabozho saw. It does not bear too much imagining, for in that direction lies heartbreak.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Timber Wolves in Snow – photo by Josef Pitner, bigstockphoto.com
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
~ Edward Abbey
Yosemite in Snow – photo from bigstockphoto.com
