…What we’ve forgotten is that every life is precious and unique. Every day, every moment. Every forest, meadow and stream, every tree, child, river and lake, is a sacred gift from the Universe.
~ Christopher Chase
Turtle Pond, Central Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Raising the level of world consciousness is certainly the most important thing on the planet today, both for the survival of our race menaced by major challenges and especially for its improvement and breaking through to the higher state of consciousness which alone will enable us to establish the new world that includes all and excludes no one, which is the condition of our very survival as a race.
~ Pierre Pradervand
Aurora Borealis and Tree – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I believed then — in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult — that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
~Jennifer McMahon
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine how you would relate to the rest of the world if love was always moving through you.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Water Lily – photo by Mihairomeob, bigstockphoto.com
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop
Spring Morning Magic – photo by George Herrick
The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Milky Way and Lone Tree – photo by danbelitsky, 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
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Research shows that gratitude changes the brain’s neural pathways in ways that enhance our enjoyment of giving to others. And when experienced as an emotional state, it
increases our care and concern for the collective good.
~ A Network for Grateful Living
Ambassadors of Spring, Daffodils – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Diversity is the nature of evolution. Evolution has worked for billions of years to create biodiversity, cultural diversity, religious diversity, linguistic diversity and truth diversity. But now, in our mistaken view of the world, we are turning this diversity, which we should be celebrating, into divisions… If we wish to reduce, or hopefully remove altogether, the possibilities of conflict, wars, poverty, exploitation, then we have to rise above these divisions which we have created in the world and celebrate our diversity.
~ Satish Kumar
Sunset, Tanah Lot Temple, Bali – photo by Netfalls, bigstockphoto.com
She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.
~ Rudy Francisco
Butterflies and Flowers – photo by Lilkar, bigstockphoto.com
We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature’s Magic – Spring in New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
~ Howard Zinn
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
When we see our planet from the perspective of space, certain things become undeniably clear. We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss as standalone issues, when in reality, they’re just symptoms of the underlying root problem. And the problem is that we don’t see ourselves as planetary.
~ Ron Garan, NASA astronaut
Earth from the Moon – photo by NASA.webp
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~ John O’Donohue
Karst Landscape, Li River, China – photo by streetflash, bigstockphoto.com
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden rather than fight over the turf.
~ Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Monument Valley – photo by FotoBanka.net, bigstockphoto.com
