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Portal to Multidimensional Living

May you awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. 

~ John O’Donohue

Monument Valley at Sunset – photo by alexeys, bigstockphoto.com

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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

~ Linda Hogan

Green Embrace – photo by ponsulak, bigstockphoto.com

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It is no longer appropriate to think only in terms of even my nation or my country, let alone my village. If we are to overcome the problems we face, we need what I have called a sense of universal responsibility rooted in love and kindness for our human brothers and sisters. In our present state of affairs, the very survival of humankind depends on people developing concern for the whole of humanity, not just their own community or nation. The reality of our situation impels us to act and think more clearly. Narrow-mindedness and self-centered thinking may have served us well in the past, but today will only lead to disaster. We can overcome such attitudes through the combination of education and training.

~ Joanna Macy

African Sunset, Serengeti National Park – photo by LuCaAr, bigstockphoto.com

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“To be” is always to “inter-be.” Our body is a community, and the trillions of non-human cells in our body are even more numerous than the human cells.. There are no solitary beings. The whole planet is one giant, living, breathing cell, with all its working parts linked in symbiosis.. We do not exist independently. We inter-are. Everything relies on everything else in the cosmos in order to manifest—whether a star, a cloud, a flower, a tree, or you and me.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Yellow Daffodils – photo by Marglido Photography, bigstockphoto.com

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… these stories emerge out of a human-plant collaborative endeavor and a mixed writing style, which I think we can fittingly call plant-writing. Through plant-writing, this book transcends the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism and empowers a new and yet timeless vision of the world, one in which we encounter plants as the persons and companions they are and in which we bring kind-heartedness to each encounter.

~ Monica Gagliano – “Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants”

Ferns and Climber Plants – photo by Rytis Bernotas, bigstockphoto.com 

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If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware—then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.

~ David Abram

Grand Canyon LIghtning – photo by rhphoto, bigstockphoto.com 

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When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust, 
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, 
they give off such hints of gladness, 
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself, 
in which I have goodness, and discernment, 
and never hurry through the world 
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves 
and call out, “Stay awhile.” 
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come into the world to do this, 
to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”

~ Mary Oliver

Beech Woods with Bluebells – photo by allou, bigstockphoto.com

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We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through “doing,” not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, “What should I do?,” we can learn to reflect, “How should I be?”

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Spring Apple Flowers – photo by Kateryna Ovcharenko, bigstockphoto.com

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We are all activists, activating one story or another through the power of our attention and the way we participate in our communities. We can choose to activate and embody the story of separation or the story of interbeing. We can choose what kind of world we want to bring forth together with the people we are in contact with. We can ask ourselves:

What am I choosing to activate through the power of my attention?

How does my participation contribute to the world I would want to live in?

~ Daniel Christian Wahl

Navajo Arch, Sunset, Arches National Park, UT – photo by thomasheen, bigstckphoto.com

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Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months 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 offer to the world that is awakening?’ The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next. 

~ Gregg Braden

Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com

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