We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.
~ John O’Donohue
Yellow Calla Lily Flowers – photo by Seregraff, bigstockphoto.com
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Sequoia National Park – photo by travelview, bigstockphoto.com
Awareness may not diminish the enormity of our pain in all circumstances. It does provide a bigger basket for tenderly holding and intimately holding our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, in turns out, is transformative—and healing.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Invitation to Awareness – photo by scorpp, bigstockphoto.com
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
~ James Baldwin
Sunrise, Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.
~ Masaru Emoto
Niagara Falls, USA – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.
~ Bruce Lipton
Limestone Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park, Australia – photo by ymgerman, bigstockphoto.com
For our indigenous partners in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, they don’t just live in the forest—they are the forest. They commune with Arutam, the spirit of the forest, to receive its guiding wisdom. May the forest be with us all.
~ Pachamama Alliance
Amazon Jungle – photo by pxhidalgo, bigstockphoto.com
I have always thought of all creatures – all organisms, really – as relations. Whether wandering alone in deep wilderness or just leaning against a tree growing beside an urban sidewalk, I have had no difficulty feeling, as if in dreamtime, the roots of our relatedness – ecologically, yes, but also with an overlay of the sacred, the holy.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Bald Eagle in Rocky Mountain HIgh Country – photo by Designwest, bigstockphoto.com
Our ability to dream of possibilities – to vision and bring forth what we are here to do for the greater good – should not be underestimated. It is how we cooperate with the Infinite.
~ Ellen Grace O’Brian
Sunset, Asilomar Beach, Pacific Grove, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Lotus Blossoms – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
~ Nikola Tesla
Aurora over Swedish Lake – photo by contas, bigstockphoto.com
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated. Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
~ Paulo Coelho
LLanos de Cortez Waterfall, Costa Rica – photo by billberryphotography, bigstockphoto.com
So at the end of this day, we give thanks for being betrothed to the unknown.
~ John O’Donohue
Giant Sequoia Trees, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
This is what I have to say to you…
Live as if the earth exhales blessings in your direction,
As if the trees speak their deepest secrets
In your ear,
As if bird songs can lift you outside your
Ordinary state of mind and bring you into truth.
Be the creative juice flowing through the universe.
Be compassion in action and wholeness in motion.
Be silence and stillness, the ocean of love so
Palpable that not one cell of you disputes the truth
That you are love.
Be so open to your destiny that it
Unfurls like a banner in the sky, a sign saying,
“Live with gratitude, generosity, and grace.”
~ Danna Faulds
El Capitan, Yosemite National Park – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth.
When we were tribal people, we knew who we were, we knew where we were, and we knew our purpose.
This sacred perception of reality remains alive and well in our genetic memory. We carry it inside of us, usually in a dusty box in the mind’s attic, but it is accessible.
~ John Trudell
Morning, Garden of the Gods, Colorado – photo by Michael Blanchard, bigstockphoto.com
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