…spirituality can give us an actual experience of the unity of all things. This experience, when nurtured as a constant practice, roots equality-consciousness, non-discrimination, non-violence and reverence for all people and the earth deep into our core.
~ Michael Edwards
Zion National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
…the growing body of research on plant and animal cognition suggests that non-human personhood is something we will increasingly have to take seriously.
~ Jack Hunter
Erawan Cascade, Kanchanaburi, Thailand – photo by Perfect Lazybones, bigstockphoto.com
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Meadow Sunrise – photo by Dzmitrock, bigstockphoto.com
Longing is the voice of your soul, it constantly calls you to be fully present in your life, to live to the full the one life given to you. Rilke said to the young poet, “Live everything.” You are here on earth now, yet you forget so easily. You traveled a great distance to get here. The dream of your life has been dreamed from eternity. You belong within a great embrace that urges you to have the courage to honor the immensity that sleeps in your heart. When you learn to listen to and trust the wisdom of your soul’s longing, you will awaken to the invitation of graced belonging that inhabits the generous depths of your destiny. You will become aware of the miracle of presence within and around you.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunset, North Window Arch and Turret Arch, Arches National Park, UT – photo by DmitryP, 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
Acadia National Park, Maine – photo by Anton Foltin, bigstockphoto.com
With a cosmology of a living universe, a shining miracle exists everywhere. There are no empty places in the world. Everywhere there is life, both visible and invisible. All of reality is infused with a vital presence and this creates a profound relatedness among all things.
~ Duane Elgin
Evening Rainbow, Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland – photo by Kotenkko, bigstockphoto.com
It is easy to dismiss the magical world as just a fairy tale belonging to childhood or old tales. That what we need at this moment more than ever is hard science, that carbon reduction and loss of biodiversity are our most pressing concerns. And yes, there is important work to be done reducing our industrial imprint, healing the Earth from the damage we have inflicted. But if we do not remove the rational blinkers from our consciousness how can we respond to the deeper need of the moment, and recognise that we are part of a world in which spirit and matter are not separate but sing together – something long known to our ancestors who walked upon sacred ground and danced, spoke and sung to the spirits of the land.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Starry Sky Over Monument Valley – photo by paulista, bigstockphoto.com
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.
~ Pablo Amaringo
Sequoia National Park – photo by travelview, bigstockphoto.com
For someone visiting earth for the first time, the real treasures here would all be free. The smell of a sunlit prairie, the taste of a cold cup of spring water, the crunch of trackless snow underfoot, these are some of the earth’s supreme treasures. On intergalactic maps, if there are such things, the place where we live must surely be designated as a magical garden in space, a place of astounding beauty.
~ Steve Van Matre
Field of Flowers – photo by jenyateua, bigstockphoto.com
Throw a pebble into a pond. It sends a shiver across the surface of the water. Ripples merge into one another and create new ones. Everything is inextricably interrelated. We come to realize that we are responsible for everything we do, say, or think, responsible in fact for ourselves, everyone and everything else, and the entire universe.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Mountain Lake – photo by DmitryP, bigstockphoto.com
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
~ Roald Dahl
Quaking Aspen Forest, Utah – photo by dropthepress, bigstockphoto.com
To feel enchanted is to step through a hidden portal into another way of seeing, into a new reality, where the reasonable, the certain, the measurable, and the predictable give way to the awesome, the wonderful, the delightful, the paradoxical, and the uncertain – and perhaps even the longing of the soul for some other kind of life beyond the exigencies of the everyday.
~ Angela Voss and Simon Wilson
Rainforest Sunset – photo by Mihailo K, bigstockphoto.com
Simple kindness is a powerful spiritual force.
~ David Spangler
Sunrise, Waterfall Njupeskar, Fulufjallet Nature Reserve, Sweden – photo by Bluejava, bigstockphoto.com
It is quite possible – even probable – that the Earth is really a living organism, and that it in turn is a part of an even larger organism, that whole constellations are alive, transmitting and receiving energy to and from other celestial energy sources.
~ John Keel
Milky Way Over Himalayan Mountains, Nepal – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
It is good to know that this industrial paradigm – economy over ecology – is only a couple of 100 years old. Our indigenous brothers and sisters have lived in harmony with nature for thousands and thousands of years. They knew – and know – that nature is not an economic means. Nature is not a resource for the economy. Nature is a source of life. Our planet is a sacred source of life; a living organism that is the common home for us and all the other living species. Economy is a subset of ecology.
~ Satish Kumar
Wanaka Tree, New Zealand – photo by pranodhm, bigstockphoto.com
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