If we surrendered to earths intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Ireland – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. Ill meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesnt make sense any more.
~ Rumi
Mt. St. Helens and Flowers – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in mountains. And mountains disappear the closer you are to them. As Dogen wrote in the Shobogenzo: “They passed aeons living alone in the mountains and forests; only then did they unite with the Way and use mountains and rivers for words, raise the wind and rain for a tongue, and explain the great void.”
Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.
~ Joan Halifax
Photo by Miguel A. Monjas
May your body be blessed.
May you realize that your body is a faithful and beautiful friend of your soul and may you be peaceful and joyful and recognize that your senses are sacred thresholds.
May you realize that holiness is mindful, gazing, feeling, hearing, and touching.
May your senses gather you and bring you home.
May your senses always enable you to celebrate the universe and the mystery and possibilities in your presence here.
May the eros of the earth bless you.
~ John ODonohue
Old Growth Douglas First – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything’s connected and change is the only constant.
~Frances Moore Lappé
Antrim, Ireland – photo by Stephen Emerson
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The Big Dipper – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.
~ Joanna Macy
Vance Creek Ponds – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Rather than projecting…science fiction images of aliens or galactic travel, I would begin with the microcosmic understanding of what it means to us individually to step outside of the isolated sense we have of our own separate self, and instead embrace and live from a consciousness of oneness in which we KNOW how we are part of an interconnected whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Bryce Canyon, KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Milky Way – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
~ Herman Melville
Horsetail Fall, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector by which disease passes into health. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
~ Wendell Berry
Denali National Park – photo by Niebrugge Images, used with permission
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. …I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
~ Anne Frank
First Light, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
As humans, water makes up seventy percent of our bodies. Water is who we are at our most elemental level. We must learn to respect water, as it is us.
~ J. Michael Read
Dungeness River, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission’
It would not occur to me to exhort you to refrain from cutting off your leg. That wouldnt occur to me or to you, because your leg is part of you. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon Basin; they are our external lungs. We are just beginning to wake up to that. We are gradually discovering that we are our world.
~ Joanna Macy
Douglas Fir Rainforest, by Point North – Images by Frank George III, used with permission
Wherever you stand,
be the soul of that place.
~ Rumi
Sunset of gold along Washington’s north coast, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
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