You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or to the disadvantage to anyone.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Giant Sequoias at Sunset – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
~ Charles Cook
Devil’s Garden Grand Staircase, E#scalante National Monument, UT – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
To perceive the soul of the Earth requires a sense of what Taoists call the way of life, the fact that everything in our world is in relationship to everything else, that nothing is itself without everything else, and that anything that seems to be a distinct thing is actually an element or strand in a larger pattern.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Panoramic View of Iguazu Falls, Argentinian Side – photo by lovelypeace, bigstockphoto.com
When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we’re creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren’t confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we’re speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.
~ Gregg Braden
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.
~ Graham Harvey
Red Deer Stag in Foggy Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
Resting in awareness in any moment involves giving ourselves over to all our senses, in touch with inner and outer landscapes as one seamless whole, and thus in touch with all of life unfolding in its fullness in any moment and in every place we might possibly find ourselves, inwardly or outwardly.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Moorea at Sunset, Tahiti – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Our individual spiritual journey is part of the world’s journey. To deny this is to live inside the illusion of separation. A simple awareness of oneness unites us with all of life, with every stone, every insect, every dream almost lost before waking. We are life itself, breathing, suffering, rejoicing. We are the pain of the sick and the laughter of the child. We are neither better nor worse than any particle of creation. Our hunger for the Source, our search for the Divine, is life’s hunger, life’s search. We need to give our journeying back to life and acknowledge the oneness that unites everything. Nothing is separate. All is One.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Aurora Borealis – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
~ Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Anasazi Ruins, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
~ Vijali Hamilton
Ancient Rainforest, Tasmania, Australia – photo by czardases, bigstockphoto.com
Never underestimate the power of goodness within you. This power of goodness can change or heal your life and the lives of others around you.
~ Anthony Douglas Williams
Light Beam, Antelope Canyon, Arizona – photo by RainerPlendl, bigstockphoto.com
Water isn’t just for drinking or washing.
Water has its own spirit.
Water is alive.
Water has memory.
Water knows how you treat it.
You should get to know water, too.
~ Wabinoquay Otsoquaywhan, Anishinaabe Nation
Brazilian Jungle – photo by kbarzycki, bigstockphoto.com
There is such a need in the world today of the most tender and immense compassion and deeper, more unselfed caring and giving, and blessing is one simple and efficient way of doing it. It is also an amazing tool for learning instantaneous, unconditional forgiveness, a practice upon which, given our dramatic divisions in the world, our survival as a race literally depends…And when I speak of blessing, I mean that spontaneous outflowing of compassion from the heart which surrounds one’s neighbour with the most caring tenderness, and not some liturgical or ecclesiastical practice.
~ Pierre Pradervand
Lotus Blossoms – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.
~ Graham Harvey
Raccoon, Pforzheim, Germany – photo by YesPhotographers, bigstockphoto.com
Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein
Summer Sunrise, Austrian Alps – photo by jojjik, bigstockphoto.com
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