For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Redwood Forest, CA – photo by Svetlana Day, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth is a sacred site. All people are the chosen people, and the purpose of life is a spiritual one. May we care for each other, and for the earth, for everything relates to everything else. Feeling this oneness, may we radiate the light of love and kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Radha Sahar
Caswell Bay Sunrise, Swansea – photo by Leighton R, bigstockphoto.com
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
~ Albert Einstein
Aurora Borealis – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Many indigenous communities understand that we are living in one of many “worlds” that have existed here on Earth. There have been worlds before this one and there will be worlds after it. Each world, each span of human cultural evolution, has reshaped what we consider reality. Once we dwelt in caves, now in towers of glass. The great wheel turns. Many of us can feel that process of transformation happening right now. We are aware that we are on a threshold. Our work is to seed into the future all that we know that is loving, healing, and wise. We are already at work as ancestors, even before we become ancestors.
~ Steven Charleston
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth.
When we were tribal people, we knew who we were, we knew where we were, and we knew our purpose.
This sacred perception of reality remains alive and well in our genetic memory.
We carry it inside of us, usually in a dusty box in the mind’s attic, but it is accessible.
~ John Trudell
Sunrise, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by RusianKphoto, bigstockphoto.com
If we want to survive on a planet that is finite and delicately interwoven, in terms of relationships, we have got to break free of that prison cell of the separate self.
~ Joanna Macy
Spring in Central Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The world needs inspiration, the world needs to know that it is possible to preserve the natural environment and to live in harmony with nature. The world needs to stop looking at its Indigenous peoples as poor people in need of support; we need to change this perspective and say that Indigenous people are fighting to protect life, to protect a natural equilibrium, because, thanks to the struggle [of the Indigenous], we can still say that there is hope for life on this planet to continue.
~ Patricia Gualinga
Living Forest – photo by nature78 – bigstockphoto.com
I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Monument Valley – photo by fullempty, bigstockphoto.com
We have to have a new understanding that Earth and Nature are alive, they are intelligent, they have consciousness and they sustain life. We have to embrace this new paradigm if we want to live in harmony and in reverence of Nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Ocean Sunset – photo by Katharina 13 – bigstockphoto.com
The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself…Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with [their] entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within [themselves], drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury [their] feet in sacredness, open [their] eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness.
~ Richard Nelson
Oramnore Woods with Wild Garlic Flowers, Galway, Ireland – photo by rihardzz, bigstockphoto.com
…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
~ Arjuna Walia
Lake Elbsee, Bavarian Alps – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Our ability to dream of possibilities – to vision and bring forth what we are here to do for the greater good – should not be underestimated. It is how we cooperate with the Infinite.
~ Ellen Grace O’Brian
Deep Jungle, Northern Thailand – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
Mindful that we are not separate from the Earth, but an integral part of its living wholeness, shifts our own story to one of “interbeing,” a shift that will change both our attitude and actions. Similarly the awareness that our spiritual aspiration does not just belong to our own self but has a connection with the sacred within all life, opens a doorway to a deeper resonance and participation. We will be present within the miracle and mystery of life in new ways.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Sunrise, Grand Canyon – photo by durkfalsma, bigstockphoto.com
We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.
~ Bruce Lipton
Blue Longwing Butterfly – photo by Peter Milota Jr., bigstockphoto.com
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
~ H.H. The Dalai Lama
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa
Sunrise, Phu Kradeueng National Park, Thailand – photo by Boysloso, bigstockphoto.com
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