The Earth is what we all have in common.
The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it… No place for greed or anger there.
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.
This is the difference between worldviews: one that views a land as a rich ore body, or a playground, and another that views it as a source of great spiritual and cultural wealth…. This is the story of the time in which we find ourselves.
The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns to Source, unerringly. This happens every single time, without exception. We are no different.
With gratitude we affirm our birthright to be here in Earth, endowed with self-reflexive consciousness, the power to choose.
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the products of our parents. Sixty percent of our body is hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atoms in us go back to the fireball fourteen billion years ago. We have been around a long time, and it has been a great birthing process to bring us forward.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
May the sun bring you new energy by day
We cherish the earth, and I feel there is a need to bring that ingredient, that note, into the ecological debate; otherwise, it just becomes graphs. Graphs are fine, but our soul is not a graph, the Earth is not a graph. The Earth is not a problem to be solved but a living being in distress.
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