A feminine understanding of interconnectedness and sacred equality and harmony is seeping into all areas of our lives to open us to its transforming truth.
~ Andrew Harvey
Morning Lights, Garden of the Gods, CO – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
~ Luci Anneu Seneca
Lewis River Falls Trail – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
everything in this world is connected – everything we do to bring harmony, anywhere and at any time, has repercussions elsewhere. The same holds true if our intention is to bring disharmony.
~ Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within
Hall of Ursus Cave, Apuseni, Romania – photo by Pelllinni, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Oh Eagle, come with wings outspread in sunny skies.
Oh Eagle, come and bring us peace, thy gentle peace.
Oh Eagle, come and give new life to us who pray.
Remember the circle of the sky, the stars, and the brown eagle,
the great life of the Sun, the young within the nest.
Remember the sacredness of things.
~ Pawnee Prayer
Bald Eagle – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
They can speak, trees. . .
But it takes special ears to hear them,
Ears that have listened to tender hearts
. . . with great care.
~ Hafiz
Ear;y Morning in the Redwoods – photo by Rixie, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
Grandfather,
Sacred one,
Teach us love, compassion,
and honor.
That we may heal the earth
And heal each other.
~ Ojibway Prayer
The Monitor and The Merrimac, near Canyonlands National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
…every act we make, every word we speak, every thought we think is not only affected by the other elements in the vast web of being in which all things take part, but also has results so far-reaching that we cannot see or imagine them.
~ Joanna Macy
Forest on A Foggy Morning, from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~ James Allen
Monument Valley, photo from bigstock.com, used with permission
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love
Photo by Ange DiBenedetto, used with permission
The birds and animals, trees and grasses, rocks, water and wind are our allies. They waken our senses, rouse our passions, renew our spirits and fill us with vision, courage, and joy…as long as the birds return and the flowers bloom, I will dream of a time when we value blue skies more than new automobiles, count our wealth in joy rather than possessions, and dwell in peace and balance with the Earth. I am not without hope.
~ David Gaines
Green Heron – photo from bigstock.com, used with permission
Thanks for sharing these photos…
More and more people are becoming aware that we must look at our “brokenness.” The trees, the rivers, the mountain, the rain, the earth, and the creatures of the fields and forests and seas have followed their paths of balancing all life. We know that in all creation, only a human family has strayed from the sacred way. We are the ones who must come back together to walk in the sacred way.
~ Kenneth Little Hawk , Native American Storyteller
View at Sunset From Kautz Creek – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
It has always been the business of the great seers (known to India as ‘rishis,’ in biblical terms as “prophets,” to primitive folk as ‘shamans,’ and in our own day as ‘poets’ and ‘artists’) to perform the work of the first and second functions of a mythology by recognizing through the veil of nature, as viewed in the science of their times, the radiance, terrible yet gentle, of the dark, unspeakable light beyond, and through their words and images to reveal the sense of the vast silence that is the ground of us all and of all beings.
~ Joseph Campbell
Coldwater Lake in Moonlight – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove – a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone.
~ Wendell Berry
Sacred Grove – photo from bigstock.com, used with permission
FLUENT
I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
~ John O’Donohue
North Fork Skokomish River, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
It is important to recognize the root of our longing, that we are no longer prepared to live in a purely physical world, but need the living presence of the spiritual. We need to know and be nourished by the invisible world that is within us and all around us. We need to reclaim the mystery and magic of being fully alive.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Elephant Rock at Night – photo from bigstock.com, used with permission
