Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Chaba Flower – photo by PJ_JoE, bigstockphoto.com
The key takeaway [of quantum mechanics]…is that we are all part of one unified field interacting and co-existing with one another…Kami (spirit) and people are not separate; they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity.
~ Akiko Ogawa
Alaskan Sunset – photo by Maria Horton Miller
Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the [time] ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking “What can I get from the world that exists,” to asking, “What can I contribute to the world that is awakening?” The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.
~ Gregg Braden
Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
What arises in your imagination if you contemplate the possibility that the ordinary “objects” accompanying our days might have life and longings of their own? That the walls of the house were once part of a living forest; that the water through the tap has a wild origin? If our everyday awareness included felt-recognition of the noble longings of rivers, meadows, or corn, might we question, or even re-envision, our human ventures?
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
Toxic subtle energies are every bit as dangerous as toxic water or soil, and they contribute to human suffering. Standing in a loving wholeness radiates a cleansing, purifying effect that can complement any and all work done to alleviate suffering on a physical level.
~ David Spangler
Water Lily – photo by Mihairomeob, bigstockphoto.com
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness… Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
~David Bohm
Desert Moon A Few Days After the Full Moon, Southwestern Desert USA – photo by dioemdes66, bigstockphoto.com
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
~ Charles Cook
Morning Summer Landscape – photo by Dzmitrock, bigstockphoto.com
Our quest, our earth walk is to look within to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind.
~ Lakota Seer
Buffalo, Yellowstone National Park – photo by kenkistler, bigstockphoto.com
In any moment, we have a choice in how we greet life. Either we meet it with a clenched fist or an open palm. Control or surrender. Either as a problem to be solved, or a mystery to be lived. Control was, and still is, very much in fashion. … Yet, I have learned that it is an open palm that invites us to surrender to a dance with a much larger web of life.
~ Nipun Mehta
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Your family is all of humanity, all the animals, all beings on earth. Include them all in your heart. Live with gratitude. What the times ask is a change of consciousness—a shift from the fearful, separate consciousness, the consciousness of us versus them, to the consciousness of connection and interdependence.
~ Jack Kornfield
Buttefly and Flower – photo by PanCaro, bigstockphoto.com
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Lake Obersee, Switzerland – photo by panaramka, bigstockphoto
Let us pause to acknowledge the unseen goodness around us. We may not see it, but it is always here – a small universe of kindness and compassion – lived out around us every day, unseen but constant. People helping, people caring, people listening. The creators of this vast goodness may never get the gratitude they deserve, but they are here, pouring hope into the world, every day.
~ Steven Charleston
Ocean Beauty, Maldives – photo by Czamfir, 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
Lotuses – photo by Angle DiBenedetto
Forests cover one-third of the Earth’s landmass. They provide a home to at least 80% of land-based plants, animals, and insects. Trees are one of our main defenses against climate change, as they balance our air by absorbing carbon dioxide from human activities and turning it into oxygen; they also protect watersheds by holding our soil in place.
~ Jocelyn Mercado
Sun Rays in Deep Spruce Forest – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
~ Nelson Mandela
Interspecies Bonding, Yala National Park, Sri Lanka – photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl
