The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
~ Coretta Scott King
Cala Lily – photo by Carmen Sorvillo, bigstockphoto.com
Everything around you is alive: believe it. Tell stories to stones, sing to trees, start conversations with birds. Build relationships. You’ll never be lonely again.
~ Sharon Blackie
Macaws in Clay Lick in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle – photo by Ostill, bigstoclkphoto.com
We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As ocean ‘waves’, the universe ‘peoples’. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
~Alan Watts
Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica – photo by Mickhail Dudarev, bigstockphoto.com
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment, to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.
~ Kent Nerburn
Sunrise, Swedish Lapland – photo by norr, bigstockphoto.com
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
~ Fritjov Capra
Yosemite National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
Creation is ongoing. The world begins anew each day. This is the miracle that makes not a sound, but which changes everything, if we can be quiet enough to feel it happen. When we can participate in this, we begin anew each day.
~ Mark Nepo
Sunrise, Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UH – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com
Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
~ Robert J. Furey
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
For someone visiting earth for the first time, the real treasures here would all be free. The smell of a sunlit prairie, the taste of a cold cup of spring water, the crunch of trackless snow underfoot, these are some of the earth’s supreme treasures. On intergalactic maps, if there are such things, the place where we live must surely be designated as a magical garden in space, a place of astounding beauty.
~ Steve Van Matre
Winter Tree – photo by Silver-John, bigstockphoto.com
We are now called to respond with compassion and wisdom to meet the challenges of our world, fuelled by sacred energy to act to preserve our planet. This energy, burning in every cell of our hearts and minds, souls, and bodies, will give us the courage and vision to heal and transform the earth.
~ Andrew Harvey
Sunrise at Sea – photo by Roxana_ro, bigstockphoto.com
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
~ Vera Nazarian
Sequoia National Park, California – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Nature is alive and talking to us.
This is not a metaphor.
~ Terrence McKenna
Frosty Woodland, Carpathian National Park, Ukraine – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Though free to think and act we are held together, like the stars in the firmament with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen but we can feel them.
~ Nikola Tesla
Starry Night – photo by 893905555, bigstockphoto.com
I do not think it is naïve to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance.
~ Madeleine L’Engle
Sunrise – photo by TinasDreamworld, bigstockphoto.com
I know that there is a deeper truth to our journey together with the Earth, a truth older than any belief or ideology, and far from the discords of today. It does not offer a solution to today’s problems, because it is too simple and radical. It is a doorway into a way of being with each other and the Earth that carries the secrets of our shared existence, where we are a part of a living tapestry that stretches to the stars and beyond. And it is here, all around us, present in the most ordinary things.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Buddhist Ruins -photo by Charles D, bigstockphoto.com
The “sacred” is not something primarily religious or even spiritual. It is not a quality we need to learn or to develop. It belongs to the primary nature of all that is.
The sacred can be found in any form: in every drop of dew on an early morning spider’s web, in the call of wildfowl at dusk. It speaks to us in a myriad of ways. In my own garden it is in the scent of honeysuckle and the hummingbird drinking nectar, or the chipmunk scurrying after the seeds fallen from the birdfeeder. It is also present in every prayer, every song of praise and thanksgiving. The remembrance of the sacred is like a central note within life. Without it something fundamental to our existence is missing. Our daily life lacks a basic nourishment, a depth of meaning.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Milky Way Night Landscape – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
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