There is a great longing within each of us. We long to discover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find our unique way of belonging to this world.
~ Bill Plotkin
Icelandic Sunset – photo by Ragnhilur Jonsdottir
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
~ Desmond Tutu
Yosemite Sunrise photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
A core teaching of the Buddha was how our perceptions shape our reality. Your mind will believe whatever you tell it is true. If you fill your mind with anger or fear, this becomes your truth. Fill your mind with love and gratitude, that becomes your truth. What we believe shapes the experiences we have and share with the world.
~Christopher Chase
Sunset, Small Lake in Sweden – photo by hamperium photography, bigstockphoto.com
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it’s been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.
~ Dean Radin
Desert Beneath the Miilky Way – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto.com
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
After the Rain – photo by yayabaidillah, bigstockphoto.com
Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water. If you water a seed of peace in your mind, peace will grow. When the seeds of happiness in you are watered, you will become happy. When the seed of anger in you is watered, you will become angry. The seeds that are watered frequently are those that will grow strong.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mossy Bamboo Pipe, Costa Rica – photo by pisces2386, bigstockphoto.com
We are not in nature, or experiencing nature, we are nature, and all of the elements are within us. We are the earth and the cosmos. And most of all we are love. Munay. This is our mission on earth, to live in reciprocity with each other and all the other aspects, and beings and elements of our planet.
~ The Road to Q’eros Messages from the Andes, FB
Garden of the Gods, Colorado – photo by Mr. Klein, bigstockphoto.com
…the singularity that people don’t realize, or most people don’t realize is that we are descendants of fungi. We were born from fungi 650 million years ago, fungi gave birth to animals. And so many of these mushroom species are much older than we are. We were basically little voles at the time that mushrooms had their true forms, many of them and so mycelial networks, multicellular organisms, the first evidence of a multicellular organism has been found in Lava Beds, and it is a mycelium.
~ Paul Stamets
Deep Jungle Mushroom – photo by Photosguide, bigstockphoto.com
I live on Earth at present
and I don’t 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
Evening in Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything. It lives here, profoundly, at One Square Inch in the Hoh Rain Forest. It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.
~ Gordon Hempton
Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park, WA – photo by sphraner, bigstockphoto.com
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whispering of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Autumn Landscape, Carpathian, Ukraine – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Traditional Koyukon people live in a world that watches, in a forest of eyes. A person moving through nature—however wild, remote, even desolate the place may be—is never truly alone. The surroundings are sensate, personified. They feel. They can be offended. And they must, at every moment, be treated with the proper respect.
~ Richard Nelson
Rainforest Creek – photo by Greg Brave, bigstockphoto.com
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~ Harriet Tubman
Milky Way, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
We arrive on this planet empty handed and we will all soon leave empty handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?
~ Nimo Patel
Magical Aurora in Iceland – photo by Ragnhilder Jonsdottir
Given the distant common ancestry between octopuses and humans, conscious octopuses would mean that consciousness has evolved on earth twice. Godfrey-Smith believes it’s plausible that there are more than two branches of evolution where consciousness independently developed…Based on the current evidence, it seems that consciousness is not particularly unusual at all, but a fairly routine development in nature.
~ Olivia Goldhill
Octopus in Aquarium – photo by Colorshadow, biugstockphoto.com
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