I live on Earth at present, and I dont know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process an integral function of the universe.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Bryce Canyon from Sunrise Point, photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
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The deeper levels of mind belong to the entire human race rather than being the personal and subjective property of a particular individual. They are unconscious, not by virtue of having been forgotten or repressed but because they exist in a hidden or enfolded form that is not normally accessible to active attention.
~ F. David Peat
Coral Reef and Fish – bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time…To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Zion National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstock.com, used with permission
From heart to heart, from soul to soul, there is a call and a response. The Earth calls – out of a deep longing in the Earth for its sacred nature to be recognized, for its heart to be seen and known – for the Real to return. When humanity responds, recognizes the Real in life and offers it back to life, the heart of the world can open and all life can begin to sing.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, from For Love of the Real
Lower Lewis River Falls – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
my being partakes of your being and that of all beings. This goes beyond interdependency – our very existence is relational therefore, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.
~ Charles Eisenstein, from The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Sea Sunset – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission
When we surrender the need to figure it all out, and cultivate the ability to let it all in, then our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of healing service on the planet. More than the world needs saving, it needs loving.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Yosemite Rainbow, Tunnel View – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
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
