There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
~ Brooke Medicine Eagle
Fern Forest – The Lodge at Woodloch, PA – Photo by Devadana Sanctuary
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, its your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
~ Georgia OKeefe
New York City Street Flowers – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
~ Black Elk
Grasshopper photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Nature has been experimenting with fungi for a billion years, perfecting a lot of powerful survival tools. We can use these tools in fantastic ways ~ to revive damaged ecosystems, to help offset global warming, and even to prevent diseases.
~ Paul Stamets
Mushroom photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
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
Crepuscular Rays and Yucca, White Sands National Park, NM – Photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
[Masaru] Emoto has done ground-breaking research with water which imply that water is conscious and receptive to human energy/intention, that it has intelligence and wisdom. Since we humans are made primarily of water, our relationship with it is central to our relationship with our own selves.
~ Jacob Devaney
Bermuda Cave Formation, photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
You see that sun rising? Sing songs to it, make your prayers, be present and give thanks. If you do that every day you will be alive, you will have lived life and it wont matter if the world ends tomorrow or what the prophecies have said because you will have lived today.
~ Morgan Saufkie, Hopi Elder
West Mitten, Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Water sustains all life. Her songs begin in the tiniest of raindrops, transform to flowing rivers, travel to majestic oceans and thundering clouds and back to earth again. When water is threatened, all living things are threatened.
~ Indigenous Declaration on Water, 2001
Iguazu Falls, photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself.
~ John ODonohue, To Bless the Space Between Us
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto, used with permission
Honor the sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor the Elders.
Honor all with whom we share the Earth:-
Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones,
Swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people.
Walk in balance and beauty.
~ Native American Elder
Yosemite Reflections – photo by Keith Walters Photography, used with permission
The great unspoken tragedy of the present time is that we have forgotten about the spiritual body of the earth. We have forgotten about the inner worlds. We have been censored. We live in a culture that has very, very efficiently told us that the outer physical world is all that exists. And even when we do spiritual practice and we discover our own spiritual self, there is often a blinker that stops us from then saying ‘this spiritual self must be part of the whole and what is the relationship I have to the whole?’ Once we make a relationship with the spiritual intelligence within creation – with the soul of the world – then we begin the groundwork, we begin the deeper healing.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir – used with permission
Many people believe that trees, like humans and all living things, possess an energetic vibration and an aura. Because trees vibrations are slower and deeply connected to the Earth through their roots, connecting with trees can help us to feel safe, secure, and stable. Most would agree that a walk in the forest or even simply gazing at a tree provides a deep feeling of peace and serenity, and can be emotionally and psychologically healing.
~ Jocelyn Mercado
Redwood National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Diversity is a source of resilience. This is good news because this time of great challenge demands more commitment, endurance, and courage than any one of us can dredge up out of our own individual supply. We can learn to draw on the other neurons in the neural net and view them with gratitude. The acts and intentions of others are like seeds that can germinate and bear fruit through our own lives, as we take them in and dedicate that awareness to the healing of our world.
~ Joanna Macy
Costa Rica, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
At the heart of my emerging voice was the belief that nature held the secret to harmony and unity, not just outside us, but inside us, no separation.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Author of When Women Were Birds
Lake Obersee, Switzerland – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, ‘What can I get from the world that exists,’ to asking, ‘What can I offer to the world that is awakening?’ The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.
~ Gregg Braden
Kauai Dawn, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
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