By doing one learns; with study one refines; through dreaming one creates; in loving one fulfills – such is the secret art for tending to the perennial garden of our soul.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Mata Atlantica Jungle, Serra dos Orgaos National Park, Brazil – photo by Tupungato, bigstockphoto.com
matter itself tingles with consciousness at the deepest level. Its there in the cells of every living creature, even in molecules and atoms.
~ From Goodreads website in a review of Christian de Quincey, “Radical Nature: The Soul of Nature”
Uluru, Australia, UNESCO World Heritage Site – photo from bigstockphoto.com
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being.
~ Joanna Macy
Grand Canyon South Rim – photo by Mike Norton, bigstockphoto.com
Research has shown that “ the heart possessed its own complex intrinsic nervous system that acts as a brain and functions independently from the brain in the head…There is evidence that the hearts brain possesses the capacity to learn, and even has short and long-term memory, and neural plasticity.”
~ Childre, Martin, Rozman, and McCraty
Ash Cave Waterfall, OH – photo by Michael Shake, bigstockphoto.com
The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.
~ David Spangler
Orangutan, Asia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
This new era requires a change of consciousness and values – an expansion of our worldviews and ethics. 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: The Cry of the Earth”
Sunrise, Costa Brava, Spain – photo by Andrey Shapovalov, bigstockphoto.com
If we can have a holistic view of soil, soul and society, if we can understand the interdependence of all living beings, and understand that all living creatures from trees to worms to humans depend on each other, then we can live in harmony with ourselves, with other people and with nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Forest in Fog, Monivea Woods, Ireland – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Only from the place of sacred wholeness and reverence can we begin the work of healing, of bringing the world back into balance.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Urubamba River, Sacred Valley of Machu Picchu, Peru – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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
