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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness… Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

~David Bohm

Ocean, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

~ Henry Beston

Blue and Yellow Macaw in Rainforest – photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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Here are “Five Vows” from Joanna Macy:

Five Vows:

I vow to myself and to each of you:
To commit myself daily to the healing of our
world and the welfare of all beings.
To live on Earth more lightly and less violently
in the food, products, and energy I consume.
To draw strength and guidance from the living
Earth, the ancestors, the future generations,
and my brothers and sisters of all species.
To support others in our work for the world
and ask for help when I need it.
To pursue a daily practice
that clarifies my mind, strengthens my heart,
and support me in observing these vows.

~ Joanna Macy

Trees and Sunlight, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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Recalling the principle of interdependence, we can expand our sense of ourselves beyond the narrow limits of our own body and experiences, to encompass everything our life connects to. Then we can look beyond our own aims, and embrace others’ goals as our own.

~ His Holiness the Karmapa

Under the Rainbow, Colorado River, Grand Canyon – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in mountains. And mountains disappear the closer you are to them…Realizing fully the true nature of a place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

~ Joan Halifax

Canadian Rockies, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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During the past era our focus has been on a transcendent, often disembodied spirituality. As a result we have forgotten the very practical nature of our true self. In the dimension of oneness everything is included. There is nothing higher or lower, nothing that is not sacred. Spiritual knowledge belongs to the whole of life, to each cell of creation. The soul is present within the whole body of each of us and also within the body of the earth. Spiritual principles offer us a very practical way to work with the energies of life.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Punch Bowl Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OR – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields
has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature
have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.

~ Eleonora Duse

Mountain lake – photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others…for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

~Albert Einstein

Akaka Fall, Akaka Falls State Park, Hawaii – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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Watching their cycles of growth, shedding of leaves, and re-flowering in the spring, people have long perceived trees as powerful symbols of life, death, and renewal. Since the beginning of time, humans have had a sense that trees are sentient beings just like us, that they can feel pain, that they bleed when they are hurt. Trees even look like us. People have a trunk; trees have arms. And so we innately feel a deep connection to them.

~ Jocelyn Mercado

Coastal Redwoods, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

~ John Muir

Moonset and Yuccas, White Sands National Monument, NM, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Many people say they can feel a tree’s vibrational energy when placing their hand upon its bark. With their deep roots, trees carry significant grounding energy. We naturally feel peace and serenity when walking in the shade of trees or on a forest trail.

~ Jocelyn Mercado

Hoh Rainforest, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission

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What is wrong with our culture is that it offers us an inaccurate conception of the self. It depicts the personal self as existing in competition with and in opposition to nature. [We fail to realise that] if we destroy our environment, we are destroying what is in fact our larger self.

~ Freya Matthew

Alberta, Canada – photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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