While psychotherapy offers a practice of healing for the dissociation from self and other humans, the practices of ecopsychology seek to repair a lost connection with the rest of nature in the hope of healing the body–mind, retrieving the soul and restoring the earth.
~ Mary Jane Rust
Forest Path in Autumn – photo by Maren Winter, bigstockphoto.com
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
~ Thomas Merton
Japanese Maple – photo by neelsky, bigstockphoto.com
The belief that everything in the universe is part of the same fundamental whole exists throughout many cultures and philosophical, religious, spiritual, and scientific traditions, as captured by the phrase ‘all that is.’ The Nobel winner Erwin Schrodinger once observed that quantum physics is compatible with the notion that there is indeed a basic oneness of the universe. Therefore, despite it seeming as though the world is full of many divisions, many people throughout the course of human history and even today truly believe that individual things are part of some fundamental entity.
~ Scott Barry Kaufman
Na Pali Coastline, Hawaii – photo by BackyardProductions, bigstockphoto.com
If we are to help heal the world we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.
~ Ram Dass
Iceland Sunset – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdotti
When a bird sings its sacred songs, it casts medicine all around the earth to the hard to reach places. When we drum and sing our songs, the same thing happens. The power of the heart is the most powerful medicine we have. When you think about it, it’s the only thing that can save everything: Because it is everything.
~ Isaac Murdoch
Pine Grosbeak on Frosty Tree Branch – photo by Donna2020, bigstockphoto.com
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, [to] get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Deep Rain Forest Hungle, Huay Mae Kamin Waterfall, Thailand – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com b
We are each cells in the living body of the larger whole. Whatever is happening to us is both personal and part of the whole, just as every cell in our biological body is both unique and part of the body. Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve. Our personal crises are also births of ourselves as members of the larger body. We do not do this work for ourselves alone.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Golden Maple Leaves – photo by dplett, bigstockphoto.com
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Milky Way and Star-Filled Sky, Himalayan Mountains – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Urubamba River, Machi Picchu, Peru – photo by Donyanedomam, bigstockphoto.com
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is sacred and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert SchweitzerAutumn
Tree Magic – photo by Ian 2010, bigstockphoto.com
What does it mean to say that nature is personal? In the broadest sense, it means choosing a different paradigm from the Western idea of nature as machine…It means holding the possibility that all things on Earth, even rocks and mountains, have their own will and intention.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
Valley of Flowers Sanctuary, Himalayan Mountains, North Sikkim, India – photo by SB Stock, bigstockphoto.com
As if we all have an unknown superhero power, the very power of creation lies invisibly enfolded within our field of attention. Quantum physics reveals to us that turning the gaze of our attention towards anything is a powerful creative act that alters, energizes, and potentiates whatever our gaze falls on.
~ Paul Levy
Sunset, Durdle Door Arch, Dorset, England – photo by ianwool, bigstockphoto.com
We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As ocean ‘waves’, the universe ‘peoples’. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
~ Alan Watts
Aurora Reflections, Stokksnes Black Beach, Iceland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
In the dimension of oneness everything is included. There is nothing higher or lower, nothing that is not sacred.
This is not an idealistic spiritual theory but a knowing that belongs to the basic principles of life: everything is sacred and can live in harmony and balance.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Grand Tetons Inhabitant – photo by Terra Tirapelli
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery…The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding…
We struggle over words when the slime mold solves the maze, because our concepts don’t fit the data. It is not that nature lacks intelligence, but that our own concepts do.
~ Jeremy Narby
Life in an Autumn Forest – photo by g215, bigstockohoto.com
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