Yes, a person can accept your apology and forgive you for what you’ve said, but they will never forget how you made them feel at that very moment. Words can stick in a person’s mind, heart, and spirit long after the words have been spoken. Don’t be in denial; words have GREAT power. Be wise when you speak!
~ Stephanie Lahart
Bold Coast Trail, Maine – photo by Terésa Stern
…no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
~ Vaclav Smil
Reishi Mushrooms, Borneo – photo by M51, bigstockphoto.com
What one thing am I able to do that will make a difference for our planet today?
~ Gratefulness.org
Sunset in Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Johnsdotti\r
Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
And I saw the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy…
~Black Elk
Angel Oak, Charleston, SC – photo by Strobie, bigstockphoto.com
This effort has to be understood in the same light of our Peace work, which is “All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer”. This effort to protect Mother Earth is all Humanity’s responsibility, not just Aboriginal People. Every human being has had Ancestors in their lineage that understood their umbilical cord to the Earth, understanding the need to always protect and thank her. Therefore, all Humanity has to re-connect to their own Indigenous Roots of their lineage – to heal their connection and responsibility with Mother Earth and become a united voice.In a Sacred Hoop Life, where there is no ending and no beginning!
~ Chief Arvol Looking Horse19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Seven Sacred Pools, Sedona, AZ – photo by twildlife, bigstockphoto.com
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
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