We are undergoing a species level [rite] of passage and it is time to come home into the community of life, not to exert ‘power-over’, but to enable ‘power-with’. We can co-create a world of shared abundance rather than competitive scarcity, but to do so it is time to become mature members of the community of life. We need to redesign the human presence and impact on Earth from being exploitative and degenerative to being regenerative and healing. What’s more, we need to do this within the lifetimes of those alive today.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
New Life in the Forest – photo by Everst Comunity, bigstockphoto.com
Water is sacred. The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale. When the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree… We are all from the Earth…
~Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman
Grand Canyon – phopto by fotoping, bigstockphoto.com
Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
~ Robert J. Furey
Forest Waterfall – photo by Gordan, bigstockphoto.com
Can love, in its unaccountable weirdness, hope to overcome a culture of individualism built on denying all our millions of kinships and dependencies? That is our central drama now.
~ Richard Powers
Farmer with Buffalo – photo by sutipond somnam, bigstockphoto.com
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~ Carlos Santana
Northern Lights Over Alaska – photo by JCB5754, 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
Sunrise, Lake Wakatipu, Queentown, New Zealand – photo by nismailm, bigstockphoto.com
When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with large machines.
~ Peter Wohlleben
Giant Sequoias, Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited.
Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, all these have voices and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.
~ Thomas Berry
Night Thunderstorm – photo by Alik Mulikov, bigstockphoto.com
I pledge allegiance to the Earth,
and to the flora, fauna, and human life that it supports,
one planet indivisible,with safe air, water and soil,
economic justice, equal rights,and peace for all.
~ Women’s Environment and Development Organization
Lake Sunset – photo by Maren Winter, bigstockphoto.com
Everything that exists contributes to the overall cosmic web at each moment, whether it is conscious of its participation or not.
~ Duane Elgin
Full Moon, Yosemite Tunnel, Yosemite National Park – photo by RodPhotography, bigstockphoto.om
Love is the light in which we see each thing in its true origin, nature, and destiny. If we could look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitation, possibility, and depth.~
John O’Donohue
Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO – photo by pilgrims49, bigstockphoto.com
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
~ Joan Halifax
Arizona Desert Near Phoenix, AZ – photo by BDFC, bigstockphoto.com
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Milky Way, Himalayas – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
~ Mary Oliver
Loch Affric, Scotland – photo by Dual Aspect, bigstockphoto.com
Can love, in its unaccountable weirdness, hope to overcome a culture of individualism built on denying all our millions of kinships and dependencies? That is our central drama now.
~ Richard Powers
Quiet Winter Moment – photo by aradi62, bigstockphoto.com
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