The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Grand Canyon Sunset, North Rim – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth is a sacred site.All people are the chosen people,and the purpose of our lives 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 loveand kindness that all may live in unity and in peace.
~ Radha Sahar
Garden of the Gods, CO – photo by RKimbrow, bigstockphoto.com
A wish for all in these challenging times…
ON WAKING
I give thanks for arriving
Safely in a new dawn,
For the gift of eyes
To see the world,
The gift of mind
To feel at home
In my life.
The waves of possibility
Breaking on the shore of dawn,
The harvest of the past
That awaits my hunger,
And all the furtherings
This new day will bring.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Abisko, Sweden – photo by Pitiya, bigstockphoto.com
Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.
~ L R Knost
Zhangjiajie Forest Park, China – photo by cubrick, bigstockphoto.com
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
~ John Wesley
Kigela – Sausage Tree – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa – photo by pyty, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot do the work of transforming the world unless we are in interdependent relationships—the work is too vast and complex for any one of us. …Let’s reach toward each other.
~ Akaya Winwood
Early Spring, Central Park, New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
In our efforts to preserve life and diversity in an egocentric world, our mature anger—in addition to our love—can be one of our greatest resources. Mature anger is part of a healthy reaction to the actions of people in power that cause suffering, death, and extinction for so many individuals, species, and human traditions and languages. This includes anger at ourselves for our complicity, in either minor or major ways. Anger of this kind promotes clarity and motivates constructive and corrective action, as well as compassion for those who are suffering. Mature anger—entirely distinct from hatred—derives, as Tibetan Buddhists say, “straight from the heart of pure compassion.”
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Lotus Flower – photo by Pixel B, bigstockphoto.com
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by vent du sud, bigstockphoto.com
In becoming aware of the spiritual dimension of reality, the shamanic practitioner knows and sees the sacred in everything and experiences the direct knowledge that everything comes from the same divine source—that everything is the Source.
~ Claude Poncelet
Asian Elephant, Thailand – photo by Sasin Tipchai, bigstockphoto.com
To feel enchanted is to step through a hidden portal into another way of seeing, into a new reality, where the reasonable, the certain, the measurable, and the predictable give way to the awesome, the wonderful, the delightful, the paradoxical, and the uncertain – and perhaps even the longing of the soul for some other kind of life beyond the exigencies of the everyday.
~ Angela Voss and Simon Wilson
Lake Cave, Western Australia – photo by ZambeziShark, bigstockphotoi.com
Compassion is a most powerful and intelligent frequency within the love spectrum. As we unconditionally express compassion, it intuitively chooses its own way to administer its care–based on a sensitive attunement to the higher need of the whole. Pure compassion is not tethered to our agendas; it’s free to weave its magic, sometimes visibly yet often unseen, but never wasted as it nurtures all within its radiance. True compassion supports the highest-best outcome, which is not always what our personality would choose or understand.
~ Doc Childre
Milky Way, Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Peony – photo by Tomka, bigstockphoto.com
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
~ Charles de Lint
Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Forest in Fog – photo by Saharrr, bigstockphoto.com
..everything that has form in this world has a spiritual dimension…everything in this world is connected…everything we do to bring harmony, anywhere and at any time, has repercussions elsewhere.
~ Claude Poncelet
Aurora Boealis, Yukon, Canada – photo by PiLens, bigstockphoto.com
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- …
- 305
- Next Page »