Redeveloping the capacity for heart-centered cognition can help each of us reclaim personal perception of the living and sacred intelligence within the world, within each particular thing.
~ Stephen Buhner
Sunrise, Lake Minnewanka, Banff National Park, Canada – photo by Songquan Deng, bigstockphoto.com
The important thing is that we exist, immersed in living fields of communication, all of which are imbued with meaning, generated by intelligent life forms, and flow from and to us from the moment the cells of our bodies self-organize into the unique identities that we know as ourselves.
~ Stephen Buhner
Elephant and Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Africa – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The light within the earth, what the alchemists called the lumen naturae, is a primal source of energy and power that has yet to be fully accessed by humanity. It belongs to our natural relationship to life, to creation and its sacred nature. This energy source can once again become accessible as humanity remembers its place in the whole and relates to all life with an understanding of oneness of unity and multi-dimensional interdependence. We cannot work with earths light, nor will we know the real names of creation, through a consciousness of separation or duality.
We need to claim the consciousness of oneness that is waiting for us.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Ancient Rainforest, Tasmania – photo from bigstockphoto.com
In the human spirit, as in the universe, nothing is higher or lower; everything has equal rights to a common center which manifests its hidden existence precisely through this harmonic relationship between every part and itself.
~ Goethe
Thors Hammer, Bryce Canyon, UT – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The new energy that is becoming available to us is an energy of oneness that can help us live our true role in relation to the planet, a role of stewardship based on conscious interconnectedness.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Winter in Pine Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
But what thrilled me most was the fact that millions of meteors burn up every day as they enter our atmosphere. As a result, Earth receives ten tons of dust from outer space. Not only do we take in the world with each breath, we are inhaling the universe. We are made of stardust.
~Terry Tempest Williams
Milky Way from Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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 thats 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
Tree in Winter – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.
~ David Spangler
Laguna de los Tres and Mt. Fitzroy, Patagonia, Argentina, bigstockphoto.com
more than ever before, our challenge is to move beyond thinking and into the felt sense of our hearts as we chart the path to healing and wholeness.
~ From Wake Up World FB Page, by guest writer Little Bear
Winter Sunset – photo by Paul Grecaud, bigstockphoto.com
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
~ Joan Halifax
Helicopter photo of Devil’s Throat, Largest Falls in Iguazu – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
~ Mary Oliver
Snow in Pine Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
It is when we look at all of life and we feel that sacred connection that we begin to change how we live in the world. As a result, it will begin to change how others live in the world.
~ Julia Butterfly Hil
Snow in Yosemite – photo by Jairo Rene Leiva, bigstockphoto.com
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day – the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Egret in Rainforest River- photo from bigstockphoto.com
The Earth with its layers of land and water and air provides the space within which all living things are nurtured and the context within which humans attain their identity. If in the excitement of a secular technology reverence for the Earth has diminished in the past, especially in the western world, humans now experience a sudden shock at the devastation they have wrought on their own habitation. The ancient human-Earth relationship must be recovered in a new context, in its mystical as well as in its physical functioning. There is need for awareness that the mountains and rivers and all living things, the sky and its sun and moon and clouds all constitute a healing, sustaining sacred presence for humans which they need as much for their psychic integrity as for their physical nourishment.
~ Thomas Berry
Haew Suwat Waterfall, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
When a person projects a heart-coherent field filled with caring, love and attention, living organisms respond to the information in the field by becoming more responsive, open, affectionate, animated, and closely connected.
~ Stephen Buhner
Goldfinch in Snow – photo from bigstockphoto.com
