We are the same, all human beings. Mentally, emotionally, physically, we are the same… In reality, I think no longer the concept of “we” and “they.” The entire nearly 7 billion human beings should [be] considered part of we. Because our individual future depends on them. So, for one’s own interest, you have to think about the whole planet, whole humanity. That is reality…
~ The Dalai Lama
Dziki Wodospad, Karpacz, Poland – phtopo by Pav-Pro-Photography, bigstockphoto.com
Every thing lives in relation to all other things. So what appears to be separate is actually a combination of interrelated parts.
Like a reciprocal roof, which is a self-supporting structure, we lean on each other from all sides. The centre is everywhere and if even one of us falls out of togetherness, we will all eventually fall.
~ Toko-pa Turner
Kumano Kodo, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wakayama, Japan – photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
More than ever, we must affirm our kinship with all life—with all other humans, all other life forms, with the living being that is our home planet. The illusion that we are separate is profoundly dangerous and leads us to do harm to ourselves, to our collective family of kin of every kind, to our earth mother, to the very life force that allows us to be here.
~ Nancy J. Napier
Aurora Borealis, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir.
In my language healers are called the alikchi. It is in their honor that I write these words: Let the alikchi come forward. Let the healers come forward. We need them now and in so many ways. Let them come forward to lead our steps to health and harmony. Healers of every kind. Healers of the body, healers of the mind. Healers of the heart, healers of the soul. Physical healers and spiritual healers. Healers of conflict and division. Healers of anger and fear. Let them all come forward, for I know they are here. The alikchi are here. I know they are all around us. They know their gifts. They know what they can do. Let them come forward, Spirit, and bless each one as they do. Empower them to empower us that your people may be whole.
~ Steven Charleston
Natural Arch, Bryce Canyon – photo by D. G. Hayes, bigstockphoto.com
If we embrace the sacred within all of life, we will find that life will speak to us as it spoke to our ancestors. A veil will be lifted and this innate knowing will be present again. This is the ancient wisdom of the Earth itself, the Earth which has evolved and changed over millennia, whose wisdom we desperately need at this present time if we are to avoid an even greater ecological disaster.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Zhangjiajie Stone Pillars at Sunset, Hunan, China – photo by f9photos, bigstockphoto.com
Blessing is not just the sharing of material resources or the doing of kindnesses. It’s an act of sharing spirit, an act of invoking, inviting, and involving a spiritual dimension. We all can do this. it’s our innate heritage as human beings.
~ David Spangler
Sunset Over the Ocean – photo by sonnydaez, bigstockphoto.com
According to Navajo tradition, a “sacred wind” blows through the universe and brings the capacity for awareness and communication with others. Our individual consciousness is simply a local part of this larger, animating wind or life force that moves through all of nature.
~ Duane Elgin
Antelope Canyon at Sunset – photoi by Luca Flor, bigstockphoto.com
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
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