“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of rage because we have finally realized there is just one flesh we can wound.
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 centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
The Mayan elders who visited New York City in October said that the shift at this time is from “me” to “we”. As we enter 2013, our opportunity is to commit even more deeply to a willingness to acknowledge and live an interdependent life – moving from a stance of separateness and individualism to one of interdependence and oneness. Our quote for today reflects this opportunity:
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
The only difference between you and me, is “and”.
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