Once upon a time, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Male Flame Tanager, Costa Rica – photo by Mark Caunt Photography, bigstockphoto.com
Earth is not a platform for human life.
It’s a living being.
We’re not on it but part of it.
Its health is our health.
~ Thomas Moore
LaSal Mountains, Arches National Park, UT – photo by Dean Fikar, bigstockphoto.com
We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
~ Wendell Berry
Grand Canyon – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
If time is my measure, then let me fill it to the brim, pouring out my best, sharing my heart, loving all I can, giving all I have. Let no day be wasted, no chance taken for granted, no moment passed by unseen for the blessing it reveals.
~ Steven Charleston
Lotus Sisters – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Every moment is unique, offering its own way to connect with what is deepest within us, to the wonder and mystery of being fully alive.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Rainforest Waterfall, Laos – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com
At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Aurora Borealis and A Tree – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts,
her pockets full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before,
a stone on the riverbed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell,
as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom.
By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
~ Mary Oliver
Saguaro Cactus and Milky Way, Arizona Desert – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto.com
It’s in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
~ Van Jones
Upper Antelope Canyon, AZ – photo by RainerPlendl, bigstockphoto.com
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider.
~ Pema Chödrön
Lotus Blossom – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of holy ground to the next.
~ J.D. Salinger
Autumn Morning, Yosemite Valley – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Our bodies are swarms of aliveness composed of microbes and fungi, metabolically dependent on plants and animals for sustenance and wildly, generatively, entangled with our landscapes and communities.
~ Sophie Strand
Cup Fungi, Tropical Rainforest, Southeast Asia – photo by IamTK, bigstockphoto.com
When love awakens in your life…it is like the dawn breaking in you.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Phu Kradueng National Park, Thailand – photo by Boysloso, bigstockphoto.com
It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
~ Paulo Coelho
Deep Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
To love, my brothers and sisters, does not mean we have to agree. But maybe agreeing to love is the greatest agreement. And the only one that ultimately matters, because it makes a future possible.
~ Bishop Michael B. Curry
Lotus Blossom – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing.
~ Lucille Clifton
Sunset, Megalithic Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis and Hams, Scotland – photo by AnnekaS, bigstockphoto.com
