Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – is already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole world.”
All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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 center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon mens hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The Great Law of Peace: All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. ~Black Elk
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind
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