You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.
~ Anita Krizzan
Lily, Babenhausen, Germany – photo by dk_photo, bigstockphoto.com
…the growing body of research on plant and animal cognition suggests that non-human personhood is something we will increasingly have to take seriously.
~ Jack Hunter
Giant Panda – photo by goinyk, bigstockphoto.com
Ecology and spirituality are two sides of the same coin—understanding and making sense of our own interbeing with the world, and our interdependence. You can enter into an embodied experience of wholeness and meaning through the door of the natural world or through spiritual practice. In fact, the two are ultimately not separate but they are pathways to the same oneness of existence in and through relationships. A oneness we experience most of the time from the limited perspective created by the ‘illusion of separation’.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Deep Montana Forest in Summertime – photo by Virrange Images, bigstockphoto.com
To me, the real challenge is the human mind, which is driving our actions: our beliefs and values shape the way we see the world, which in turn determines how we will treat it. So long as we assume that we are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around us, we will not be able to see the dangers we create. To see those, we have to recognize that our very lives and our well-being depend on the richness of nature.
~ David Suzuki
Iguazu Falls, Argentina and Brazil Border – photo by saiko3p, bigstockphoto.com
Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, said of his tradition, “there was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object gave us a great interest in life. The world teemed with life and wisdom…”
~ Duane Elgin
Aurora Borealis, Northern Norway – photo by lijuan, bigstockphoto.com
May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness,
Courageous in thought,
Generous in love.
~ John O’Donohue
Chapel on Mountain Path – photo by Massimo de Candido, bigstockphoto.com
All things in the universe are one. They began as one. They may end as one. They are all made of the same basic matter/energy, and they interact with one another, constantly.
All things on earth are one: plants, animals, rocks, oceans and atmosphere. All living creatures had a common origin, all depend on each other, and shape and are shaped by non-living things. Life has radically altered the earth’s atmosphere, and molded many aspects of its geology. The Gaia system is an organic evolving whole embracing the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
~ Paul Harrison
Red Deer Stag at Sunrise – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.
~ James Baldwin
Northern Lights, Sweden – phtoo by contas, bigstockphoto.com
How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Blue Lake, Spain – photo by vicenfoto, bigstockphoto.com
If we were to adopt a relational attitude, and interact with rivers, streams, trees, animals, soils and so on as if they are persons, our behaviours and actions would also necessarily be altered as a consequence.
~ Jack Hunter
Winter River Landscape – photo by elenathewise, bigstockphoto.com
Looking behind I am filled with gratitude,
Looking forward I am filled with vision.
Looking upwards I am filled with strength
and looking within, I discover peace.
~ Apache prayer
Sedona, AZ – photo by ftlaudgirl, bigstockphoto.com
I feel the spirits of the earth moving around me, at night, when I am alone beneath the watchful moon. I feel the presence of life encircling me: spirits of animals, spirits of plants, spirits of air and water, the elements of life, the expressions of life, embodied as a spirit of creation, as much a part of the natural order as you or me. My ancestors and your ancestors knew these spirits well. They lived with them for centuries. They worked with them, celebrated with them, learned from them. The great wheel of life has turned many times since then, but at night you can still feel the spirits gathering, gathering beneath the moon.
~ Steven Charleston
Mysterious Night, Ukraine – photo by 226777828, bigstockphoto.com
The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it’s a brand-new sun. It’s born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes on, never to return again. As soon as the children are old enough to understand, the adults take them out at dawn and they say, ‘The sun has only one day. You must live this day in a good way, so that the sun won’t have wasted precious time.’ Acknowledging the preciousness of each day is a good way to live, a good way to reconnect with our basic joy.
~ Pema Chödrön
Mesa Arch Sunrise, Canyon Lands National Park, UT – photo by twildlife, bigstockphoto.com
Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
Purple Orchid – photo by PricelessPhotos, bigstockphoto.com
We and all living creatures are not just inhabitants of Earth, we are Earth — an outgrowth of its physical structure and an engine of its global cycles. Although some scientists still recoil at the mention of Gaia, these truths have become part of mainstream science.
~ Ferris Jabr
Earthrise – photo by By NASA/Bill Anders, wikipedia.com
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