You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
~ Rumi
Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
Maybe at times we need to crumble to the ground at the magnificence of it all, awestruck at the bounty laid out before us. To fall apart. To fail. To get back up. To be humbled again. To start over. To be a beginner. An amateur at the ways of love. To make this journey with our kindred travelers and the sun, moon, and stars. And to realize together how little we know in the face of it all.
~ Matt Licata
Milky Way, Stars, and Trees, Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Plants, it turns out, really are highly conscious, intelligent and yes, they do have a brain. It’s just that no one ever looked in the right place.
Depth analysis of plant consciousness since the turn of the (new) millennium is finding that their brain capacity is much larger than previously supposed, that their neural systems are highly developed—in many instances as much as that of humans, and that they make and utilize neurotransmitters identical to our own. It is beginning to seem that plants are highly intelligent, feeling beings—perhaps as much or even more so than humans in some instances. (They can even perform sophisticated mathematical computations and make future plans based on extrapolations of current conditions. The mayapple, for instance, plans its growth two years in advance based on weather patterns.)
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Forest at Dawn – photo by Labunskiy K. bigstockphoto.com
If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.
~ Rumi
Iceland Sunset – photo by rasica, bigstockphoto.com
Modern peoples…have mainly forgotten that we live in relationship as brothers and sisters with all the beings and forces of the natural world. Our scientific redefinitions of the “unseen” as the “unreal” have caused us to forget that we are all luminous strands in a giant web of belonging.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada, “Lessons in Courage”
Elf Garden, Iceland, July 2013 – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Integrity is remembering that as individuals we are indivisible from the whole process in which we are participating — the integral evolution of life and consciousness. Integrity is about embracing the paradox that while most of us live our lives in a state of consciousness that separates subject and objects, self and world, even humanity and nature, there is a deeper ground of being and becoming — a quantum-entangled, implicate order of fundamental interconnectedness and co-creative reciprocity. We are individual nodes of consciousness.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Lotus – photo by Martha Paradis
All LIFE co-exists and co-creates as ONE. Mother Earth is our shared home, an evolving self-regenerating landscape that connects, nurtures and sustains all of us together. She recycles water and air, atoms and molecules. Sharing equally with ALL. Nature, our mother (who some call Gaia) is in truth more like a planetary cell or cosmic womb than a lonely rock spinning through space. ALL LIFE is Sacred. We are ONE Earth Community. Her life is our life..
~ Christopher Chase
Sunset, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
[The] future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited. “Use” as our primary relationship with the planet must be abandoned…
~ Thomas Berry
Keel Billed Toucan, Belize – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
In the forest the deer raise their heads. The eagle and the hawk glide above, piercing the thin air with their sharp cries. The buffalo gather in a circle. The wind in the trees falls silent. Something sacred comes this way. The Spirit comes this way. The unity of creation is not an idea, but a feeling. It is kinship. Open your heart and it will be there.
~ Steven Charleston
Red Deer Stag in Autumn Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
It’s in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
~ Van Jones
Beautiful Lotus – photo by Peggy Braun
We are slowed-down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
~ Albert Einstein
Waterfall and Lagoon, Mt. Tomah, Australia – photo by lovlerah, bigstockphoto.com
Extend the circle of “us” to include as much of the world as you possibly can.
~ Rick Hanson
Japanese Maple Leaf – photo by landio, bigstockphoto.com
Being “for” expands your heart. Being “against” contracts it. Feel this.
The energy you radiate from your chest is a thousand times more powerful than the opinion you hold in your head…
~ Fred LaMotte
Sunset, Garda Lake, Italy – photo by Alberto SevenOnSeven, bigstockphoto.com
No matter what problem you look at, every ecological problem comes from this illusion that we are separate from nature.
~ Vandana Shiva
Glacier National Park, Montana – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Practice guerrilla compassion — silently blessing people on-line at the bank, at the supermarket, in the cars next to us in traffic. Each blessing a tiny Sabbath, a secret sanctuary offered to a hurried and unsuspecting world.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Autumn Leaf – photo by Marjan Cermelj, bigstockphoto.com
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