Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects for Western culture is to accept that we are totally dependent on the earth for all our needs.
~ Mary Jane Rust
Grand Canyon – photo by alexeys, bigstockphoto.com
Plants and mushrooms have intelligence and they want us to take care of the environment. They want to communicate that to us in a way we can understand.
~ Paul Stamets
Mushrooms, Moss, and Lichen – photo by malven, bigstockphoto.com
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
~ Wangari Maathai
Hawaiian Sunset – photo by Indira Darst
We cannot step outside life’s songs. This music made us; it is our nature.
Our ethic must therefore be one of belonging, an imperative made all the more urgent by the many ways that human actions are fraying, rewiring, and severing biological networks worldwide. To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is therefore to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
~ David George Haskell
Baobab Trees, Madagascar – photo by Dudarev Mikhail, bigstockphoto.com
Nature is not unfeeling matter; it is full of invisible forces with their own intelligence and deep knowing. We need to re-acknowledge the existence of the spiritual world within creation if we are even to begin the real work of bringing the world back into balance.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Iceland Sunset – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
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
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