Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but part of it. Its health is our health.
~Thomas Moore
Half Dome in Snow – photo from bigstockphoto.com
In many respects, plant nervous systems are nearly as sophisticated as our own, and in some plants, nearly as rapid in their actions. Plant nervous systems possess synapses, just as our brains do, and they make and use neurotransmitters that are molecularly identical to those that are found in our brains. They use these neurotransmitters to facilitate the function of their central nervous system, just as we do.
~ Stephen Buhner
Pacfici Northwest Forest, Douglas Fir Trees – photo by Craig Chanowski, bigstockphoto.com
…points of contact emerge between the realms of the Living and Non-Living. Metals are found to respond to stimuli; they are subject to fatigue, stimulated by certain drugs and “killed” by poisons.
~ Jagadis Chandra Bose
Glacier National Park, MT – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
…honoring spirit is accomplished as we quiet ourselves, illuminating the chatter of our doubting minds so that we can hear our heart pulsing with gratitude for the sacred gift that is life.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada, “Lessons in Courage”
Forest Ferns – photo by Michel Ulman, bigstockphoto.com
the mind and heart are like two different radio stations. When you tune to the heart station, your attitude shifts and you look for responses that are better suited for the wholeness of the situation. The mind becomes a big winner in the process. It actually becomes more rational. Heart intelligence provides the mind with a bigger picture that allows it to consider what is best for oneself while being more inclusive of the wholeness.
~ Childre, Martin, Rozman, and McCraty
Mt. Hood Sunset – photo from bigstock.com
Active Hope is a practice. Like tai chi or gardening, it is something we do rather than have. It is a process we can apply to any situation, and it involves three key steps. First, we take a clear view of reality; second, we identify what we hope for in terms of the direction we’d like things to move in or the values we’d like to see expressed; and third, we take steps to move ourselves or our situation in that direction.
~ Joanna Macy
Garden of the Gods, CO – photo by Mr. Klein, bigstockphoto.com
Picture heart intelligence as the flow of awareness, understanding and intuitive guidance we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart.
~ Childre, Martin, Rozman, and McCraty
Russel Falls, Mt. Field National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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
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