I want to make it clear that my intention of presenting this information is to demonstrate that thoughts, intentions, prayer and other units of consciousness can directly influence our physical material world. Consciousness can be a big factor in creating change on the planet. Sending thoughts of love, healing intent, prayer, good intention, and more can have a powerful influence on what you are directing those feelings towards.
~ Arjun Walia
Winter Forest at Sunset – photo by swkunst, bigstockphoto.com
Nature is constantly communicating with us, even when we are not paying attention. Our biological processes are attuned to the messages of the environment around and within us. Additionally, when we interact consciously with our environment, we are constantly interpreting what meaning there is for us. Likewise we are ever sending signals and conveying meaning to the world around us.
~ Todd Dearing
Blue-crowned Motmot, El Jardin, Colombia – photo by reisengraf.ch, bigstockphoto.com
Whereas reason dominates feeling, mystical knowing does not “conquer” reason—it envelops it, embraces it, transcends it. Thus, mystical or spiritual intuition is integrative: It includes, while transcending, both reason and somatic feeling.
~ Christian de Quincey,
“Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship”
Winter Morning – photo by Alex Ugalek, bigstockphoto.com
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
~ L.R. Knost
Sierra Nevada Sunrise over Mono Lake – photo by A. vanAnstel, bigstockphoto.com
Prayer of the Woods –
I am the heat of your hearth on cold winter nights. The friendly shade screening you from the summer sun and my fruits are refreshing draughts quenching your thirst as you journey on.
I am the beam that holds your house, the board of your table, the bed on which you lie and the timber that builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe. The door of your homestead. The wood of your cradle and the shell of your coffin.
I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty. Ye who pass by. Listen to my Prayer:
Harm me not.
~ Sign in Grayton Beach State Park, Florida
Fir Tree in Winter – photo by Cyrustr, bigstockphoto.com
We live at a time when the greatest form of courage is to act as if our lives made a difference.
~ William Sullivan, The Secret of the Inca
Mountain Valey, Nepal, Himalayan Mountains – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I have a secret place I go to when things are starting to get me down. It is a place of quiet and calm, of serenity and balance. It does not shut reality out as much as it offers a momentary alternative, a place to gather strength for the days ahead and to discover joy along the way. I have the key to this sanctuary. I will gladly share it if you would care to visit such a hidden garden. The key is this: be kind. Be kind intentionally. Be kind indiscriminately. Be kind to every form of life without exception. That is the key. And believe me when I say it unlocks a wonderful place of peace within us.
~ Steven Charleston
Milky Way – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
We Need an Education of the Heart
My wish is that, one day, formal education will pay attention to the education of the heart, teaching love, compassion, justice, forgiveness, mindfulness, tolerance and peace. This education is necessary, from kindergarten to secondary schools and universities. I mean social, emotional and ethical learning.
We must learn that humanity is one big family. We are all brothers and sisters: physically, mentally and emotionally. But we are still focusing far too much on our differences instead of our commonalities.
Intolerance leads to hatred and division. Our children should grow up with the idea that dialogue, not violence, is the best and most practical way to solve conflicts. But this can become reality only if we educate, not just the brain, but also the heart…
~ H.H., the 14th Dalai Lama
Oak Leaves in Wintertime – photo by 220475002, bigstockphoto.com
What if there were another system and jurisprudence, based upon the concept that the planet and all of its species have rights — and they have those rights by virtue of their existence as component members of a single Earth community?
~ Thomas Berry
Wood Mouse on the Forest Floor – photo by CreativeNaturePhotography, bigstockphoto.com
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and the man, all belong to the same family.
~ Chief Seattle
Grand Canyon in Winter Snow – photo by Songquan Deng, bigstockphoto.com
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
~ Terry Brooks
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
~ Terence McKenna
Forest in Snow at Sunset – photo by Umas83, bigstockphoto.com
Earth Mother teach me of my kin,
of Hawk, and Dove, and flower,
of blinding sunlight, shady knoll,
desert wind and morning showers.
Teach me every language of
the creatures that sing to me,
that I may count the cadence of
infinite lessons in harmony.
~ Jamie Sams
Brown Bear in the Forest, Finland photo by Michal Masik, bigstockphoto.com
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
~ William Blake
Northern LIights and Stars, Yukon Territory, Canada – photo by PiLens, bigstockphoto.com
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Huai Mae Khamin Waterfall, Thailand – photo by littlegallery, bigstockphoto.com
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