A place of peace in the midst of chaos. A stillpoint. A quiet center within the heart of the storms. …Take that time, with no agenda, to sit in stillness with the Spirit. Let the sound of your heartbeat convey all you need to say. Open your mind to the infinite. Feel the presence of profound love.
~ Steven Charleston
Quaking Aspen Grove – photo by alysta, bigstokphoto.com
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
~ Howard Thurman
Sunset, Grand Canyon, North Rim – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
An updated worldview is called for that places life as we know it as in, among and inseparable from Earth itself. Humans, for instance, do not live “on” the planet, they are the planet. The terms animate and inanimate no longer serve when we view earth as a living entity. Following on, planetary psychology accepts that earth as a living planet is conscious and accepts the responsibility to investigate just how human and other than human beings share in that one consciousness.
~ David J. Chalmers
Quartz Sandstone Pillars, Tianzi Mountains, Shangiajie National Forest Park, China – photo by effred, bigstockphoto.com
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Scarlet Ibis, Trinidad and Tobago – photo by newrock, bigstockphoto.com
We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
~ Wendell Berry
Tree Person, Central Park, New York – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
As if we all have an unknown superhero power, the very power of creation lies invisibly enfolded within our field of attention. Quantum physics reveals to us that turning the gaze of our attention towards anything is a powerful creative act that alters, energizes, and potentiates whatever our gaze falls on.
~ Paul Levy
Southern Ring Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Telescope
Spirituality is deeply personal, intimate and beyond religion and dogma. It’s an experience that awakens us to a way of being.
~ Jonathan H Ellerby
Northern Lights, Alaska – photo by JCB5754, bigstockphoto.com
In reality there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its inner spontaneity.,
~ Thomas Berry
Northen Cardinal – photo by Steve Byland, bigstockphoto.com
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
~ Alan Watts
Quaking Aspens – photo by Galego66, bigstockphoto.com
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
~ Ravi Shankar
Maui, North Coast, Hawaii – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
People who believe that everything is fundamentally one differ in crucial ways from those who do not. In general, those who hold a belief in oneness have a more inclusive identity that reflects their sense of connection with other people, nonhuman animals, and aspects of nature that are all thought to be part of the same “one thing.”
~ Scott Barry Kaufman
Grand Canyon Southern Rim – photo by Alice Pickler, bigstockphoto.com
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
~ Wendell Berry
Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Iceland Sunset – 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
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Norwegian Forest – photo by Mr. Smith bigstockphtoto.com
