For each act of hatred that makes the news, a dozen of acts of goodness go unseen in our world.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
African Sunset, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe – photo by Artush, bigstockphoto.com
We are each cells in the living body of the larger whole. Whatever is happening to us is both personal and part of the whole, just as every cell in our biological body is both unique and part of the body. Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve. Our personal crises are also births of ourselves as members of the larger body. We do not do this work for ourselves alone.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces…I am less important than I thought. I rejoice in that.
~ Wendell Berry
California Redwood Forest photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
…spirituality can give us an actual experience of the unity of all things. This experience, when nurtured as a constant practice, roots equality-consciousness, non-discrimination, non-violence and reverence for all people and the earth deep into our core.
~ Michael Edwards
Sunrise and Frost – photo by Alex_Ugalek, bigstockphoto.com
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Eagle Mesa at Sunset in Monument Valley – photo by makasanaphoto, 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 Over Nepal – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com