Be aware of the miracles and wonders which are happening all around you all the time. Life is never dull; it is full to overflowing with the most thrilling things.
~ Eileen Caddy
The Magic of Northern Lights, Sweden – photo by contas, bigstockphoto.com
Inside each of us there is a noble heart. This heart is the source of our finest aspirations for ourselves and for the world. It fills us with the courage to act on our aspirations. Our nobility may be obscured at times, covered over with small thoughts or blocked by confused and confusing emotions. But a noble heart lies intact within each of us nonetheless, ready to open and be offered to the world.
~ The Karmapa
Lotus Blossoms – photoi by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Bryce Canyon, Utah – photo by newcomer16, bigstockphoto.com
Accessing our natural heart intelligence can create an energetic field of unconditional love and harmonious interaction— helping humanity to realize we are one Earth, one yard, one people. Love is the one thing that can bring all this together coherently and eventually thrive.
~ Doc Childre
Torres del Paine National Park Sunrise, Chile – photo by Mikhail Dudarev, bigstockphoto.com
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
Winter Sunset – photo by Alex_Ugalek, 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
Callanish Stones, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
The true human can tune to the voice of the river and give it expression. The true human can tune to the voice of the wind and speak the words that the wind cannot speak without human tongue. The true human can blend with the essences of the forest, the spirits of the rain, the spirits of every creeping, crawling, living thing and can represent them fairly and evoke from them the best that they can be.
~ Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes
Ocelot in Brazilian Jungle at Night – photo by Photocech, bigstockphoto.com
We all are responsible for our Mother Earth and we should not be shy and hold back from the caring. Accept it as our personal responsibility and care. They [all our earth-kin] are all our brothers and sisters. Let us accept that everything around us is our family and we are related. Let us accept that our caring must not only be in words but in action…You are not owners of anything. Mother Earth owns you and you look after her just the same way that you would look after your Mother here because they also have given you lots of other relatives who are not human, but you are still responsible for their welfare and wellbeing.
~ Uncle Bob Randall, Aboriginal Elder
Moose in Snowy Forest – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sunrise, Village of Tyuenovo, Bulgaria – photo by Flaviya85, bigstockphoto.com
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
~ Albert Camus
Sunset in Lake and Mountains – photo by Andriy bigstockphoto.com
Where I come from, the words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Lotus Flower – photo by amnachphoto, bigstockphoto.com
…a truly planetary perspective means we see ourselves first and foremost not just as members of the human family but as earthlings in interdependent relationship with all the human and nonhuman members of the Earth community.
~ David Nicol
Cardinal in Snow – photo by biegles56, bigstockphoto.com
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
~ Vijali Hamilton
Egret-in-Rainforest-photo-by-WhitcombeRD-bigstockphoto.com
Life is a gift that is given and will be taken. How we choose to spend our time here is our gift to life. It is our way of saying “thank you life” for the gift.
~ Imuetinyan Ugiagbe
Sunset, Snowy Mountain – photo by Pung Pung – bigstockphoto.com
Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Where you are is called Here.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger;
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers.
I have made this place around you,
And if you leave it
You may come back again
Saying…
“Here.”
No two trees are the same to raven
No two ranches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or branch
Does is lost on you,
Then you are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
~ David Wagner
Path in the Forest – photo by Ms. Candy, bigstockphoto.com
