Communication with other species encourages deeper and more harmonious relationships with Nature. Sensing the messages being relayed by a ‘non-talking’ being involves listening with an open mind and an open heart. This is the way of the Shaman, and the way of living with respect and in harmony with all of Earths beings. Inter-species communication is also known as Telepathy and is the universal language of Nature.
By seeing Earth herself, and all of Nature as sentient, we open ourselves up to the communication that exists between all life and all species.Feeling becomes equally if not more important as thinking. Action is motivated by preservation not destruction. Care overrides cruelty.
As fellow sentient beings we don’t take from Nature, depleting and destroying her, but rather we become one with her.
~ Naturesheart.org
Glass Frog, Amazon Raiforest – photo by kikkerdirk, bigstockphoto.com
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. In that kind of relationship you have enough love, strength and awakening in order to change your life.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Li River, Karst Mountain Lanscape, Guilin, China – photo by weltreisendertj, bigstockphoto.com
The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness. Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
And now, as we stumble into this present landscape there is an even greater need for a deeper awareness, to be receptive to the spirits of the land and the beings of light who can help to guide us, who are always around despite our censorship of the unseen worlds. We are always part of a fully animate world, even if we have abandoned this knowing. Visions can sing to us, can show us the songlines to follow, the dreams we need. We can no longer afford to remain isolated within our rational consciousness.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nature’s Beauty – photo by Mihalilo K, bigstockphoto.com
To the Western mind, participation with the non-human Others and with the numinous might suggest mysticism, or something unavailable to ordinary people. Yet this kind of participation is, even now, an everyday mode of being for at least some people—indigenous and others—who have not entirely succumbed to the age of reason.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Deep Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
…honoring spirit is accomplished as we quiet ourselves, illuminating the chatter of our doubting minds so that we can hear our heart pulsing with gratitude for the sacred gift that is life.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Sunrise, Hunt’s Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
All living things are individual instruments through which the Mind of the Universe thinks, speaks and acts. We are all interrelated in a common accord, a common purpose, and a common good. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
~ J. Allen Boone
Tree Friend, Central Park, NY – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
I have come to understand for myself that re-patterning the future through a new way of being in the present, is about “meeting the moment”. It is about the little day-to-day changes, not just in our doing, but in our being in relationship to people, place and planet.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Sunset at Navajo Arch, Arches National Park, UT – photo by thomasheen, bigstockphoto.com
Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world.
~ David Spangler
Giant Sequoias, Sequoia National Park, CA – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conundrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Tropical Sunrise – photo by f9photos, bigstockphoto.com
The ancient human-Earth relationship must be recovered in a new context, in its mystical as well as in its physical functioning. There is need for awareness that the mountains and rivers and all living things, the sky and its sun and moon and clouds all constitute a healing, sustaining sacred presence for humans which they need as much for their psychic integrity as for their physical nourishment…
~ Thomas Berry
Lotus Blossom, Peace Pagoda, Leverett, MA – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
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
Small Forest River – photo by pellinni, bigstockphoto.com
We must relinquish our convenient narratives of human exceptionalism and triumphalism – those stories that centralize human agency and enthrone human interests as supremely paramount in the multiverse. And we must do this not simply because we are now regaining some awareness about the nobility of other species and life forms – and not entirely because we are ourselves now humbled by our less than spectacular origins, but mainly because these times of upheaval call on us to revisit what is implied in being human. Do we continue to insist that we are lords over all, masters of the universe – uniquely distanced from the fleshy, dirty discourses of ‘nature’ – ravaging plagues burning soil and earth into asphalted forms of our own making? Or do we recognize our relatedness to all things, our real dependence on the land we supposedly transcend, and that to be human is not a magisterial decree of isolation, but a chorus…a syncretic process of shared ecological participation?
~ Bayo Akomolafe
African Elephant, Hwange National Park – photo by frenchp, bigstockphoto.com
All of our prophecies speak of this time: the time when the people of the world would begin waking up and unifying for the protection of life. As Indigenous people, we have been guided to carry the sacred teachings that allowed us to maintain our connected way of life, so that when this time came, we would be able to help guide humanity back to a more balanced way of being.
~ Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Teton National Park – photo by Sue Smith, bigstockphoto.com
What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.
~ Bruce Lipton
New York City Summer – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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