Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul. Listen to the voices of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers. Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your life. Listen to your memory and to the inrush of your future, to the voices of those near you and those you have lost. Out of all of that attention to your soul, make a prayer that is big enough for your wild soul, yet tender enough for your shy and awkward vulnerability; that has enough healing to gain the ointment of divine forgiveness for your wounds; enough truth and vigour to challenge your blindness and complacency; enough graciousness and vision to mirror your immortal beauty. Write a prayer that is worthy of the destiny to which you have been called.
~ John O’Donohue
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The world is magic, not a little bit, one-hundred percent. Every atom, from one end of the cosmos to the other, is magic, magic, magic.
~ Terence McKenna
Monument Valley Full Moon – photo by tobkatrina, bigstockphoto.com
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tree People, Central Park, NY – photoi by Devadana Sanctuary
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Integrity is remembering that as individuals we are indivisible from the whole process in which we are participating — the integral evolution of life and consciousness. Integrity is about embracing the paradox that while most of us live our lives in a state of consciousness that separates subject and objects, self and world, even humanity and nature, there is a deeper ground of being and becoming — a quantum-entangled, implicate order of fundamental interconnectedness and co-creative reciprocity. We are individual nodes of consciousness.
~Daniel Christian Wahl
Vestrahorn, Stokksnes Cape, Iceland – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.
~ David Spangler
Morning Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Have you allowed that familiar yet mysterious being we call plant to teach you its secrets?
Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is?
How it is surrounded by a field of stillness?
The moment you become aware of a plant’s emanation of stillness and peace,
that plant becomes your teacher.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
To truly care for the Earth community…we must learn to sense or intuit the soul of the Earth, the underlying pattern of nature expressed through an astounding diversity of forms and species.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Flower People, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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
Grand Canyon and Colorado River – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Compassion increases in effectiveness as we mature in the core qualities of the heart, such as unconditional love, allowance, acceptance and an unattached desire for the highest outcome for all concerned.
~ Doc Childre
North Coast of Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Natalie Thackston, bigstockphoto.com
Mindful that we are not separate from the Earth, but an integral part of its living wholeness, shifts our own story to one of “interbeing,” a shift that will change both our attitude and actions. Similarly the awareness that our spiritual aspiration does not just belong to our own self but has a connection with the sacred within all life, opens a doorway to a deeper resonance and participation. We will be present within the miracle and mystery of life in new ways.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
I think that responsible living in the biosphere means learning to see other species as beings like us, in that they have intentions, make decisions, and they know what they’re doing. They have points of view.
I think that responsible living in the biosphere means learning to take the interests of other species into consideration and allowing them room to live. And I think it means learning to relate to them and to think through the kinship we have with them…
~ Jeremy Narby
Brown Bear, Slovakia – photo by Michal Masik, bigstockphoto.com
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
~ Chief Dan George
Sedona, Arizona – photo by twildlife, bigstockphoto.com
Even the eyes know this, that everything lives—that the dull or gleaming surfaces they gaze at are also gazing back at them, that the colors they drink or dive into have been longing to swallow them and to taste of their hazel, their bright hints of green.
~ David Abram, Becoming Animal
Boothbay Harbor, Maine – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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