We crave that deep place within that cannot be touched by the ups and downs of life, but rather just IS – connected and whole.
~ Nipun Mehta
Sunset Storm, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
The stillness will come. After all the noise and confusion. After the shouts and alarms. When you are away from the crowd, when you can be alone with yourself, then the stillness will come, rising up gently like a spring of fresh water, enfolding you in the peace of the deep forest, sheltered and serene, a place only you know, a place of stillness and healing.
~ Steven Charleston
Snowy Forest Landscape – photo by Yanika, bigstockphoto.com
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.
~ Wangari Maathai
Beach Sunrise – photo by West Coast Scapes, bigstockphoto.com
We are always part of something, belonging to a greater wholeness. In fact, we always stand deeply connected with the entire world around us…Nothing can thrive in seclusion. We all depend on each other and we are nurtured in the web of connectedness—organically and in consciousness.
~ Soren Hauge
Bull Buffalo, Yellowstone National Park – photo by kenkistler, bigstockphoto.com
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power, and to one another, is grounded in love and compassion.
~ Brene Brown
Lotus Flowers – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
When we surrender the need to figure it all out, and cultivate the ability to let it all in, then our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of healing service on the planet. More than the world needs saving, it needs loving.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Owl in Snow-Covered Tree – photo by jaapbleijenberg, bigstockphoto.com
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
~ Cesar Chavez
Sunrise Rainbow, Paine River, Patagonia, Chile – photo by Circumnavigation, bigstockphoto.com
This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.
~ Jeremy Narby
Colorful Sky and Sea – photo by Maaria Marganingsih, 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 you 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 the disadvantage of anyone.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Northern Lights, Alaska – photo by JCB5754, bigstockphoto.com
Everything in nature is alive and influences your thoughts whether you know it or not.
Who’s to say the rock does not hear your thoughts? Nor the river? Or, the mountain ranges? We all belong to this living world and there is nothing that does not belong.
~ Tony Ten Fingers, Oglala Lakota
Light Beam, Antelope Canyon, AZ – photo by lorcel, bigstockphoto.com
A practice of gratitude is not about dismissing sadness, anger, fear, or confusion. Rather, it offers us the opportunity to see that we often experience multiple feelings at once; to welcome joy into the same places where we hold grief; to turn our attention to what is quietly growing and breathing day by day, which, to our possible surprise, includes ourselves.
~ Kristin Lin
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
We live in a creative Universe that is itself a work of cosmic art. Nature is more like a flowing living symphony than a material “thing.” And everything is connected, everything is energy… Mystical traditions and individuals have been expressing this understanding for centuries. Life is sacred, life is art.
Be mindful. See the beauty that exists everywhere, the creative mystery that we are. Be aware of your presence and connection to everything.
Know that behind your social persona and cultural identity you are the child of a Creative Cosmos.
~ Christopher Chase
Deep Autumn Forest – photo by iosebi, bigstockphoto.com
We must relinquish our convenient narratives of human exceptionalism and triumphalism – those stories that centralize human agency and enthrone human interests as supremely paramount in the multiverse. And we must do this not simply because we are now regaining some awareness about the nobility of other species and life forms – and not entirely because we are ourselves now humbled by our less than spectacular origins, but mainly because these times of upheaval call on us to revisit what is implied in being human. Do we continue to insist that we are lords over all, masters of the universe – uniquely distanced from the fleshy, dirty discourses of ‘nature’ – ravaging plagues burning soil and earth into asphalted forms of our own making? Or do we recognize our relatedness to all things, our real dependence on the land we supposedly transcend, and that to be human is not a magisterial decree of isolation, but a chorus…a syncretic process of shared ecological participation?
~ Bayo Akomolafe
Mac Mac Waterfall, Sabie, South Africa – photo by intsys, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements…
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Alaskan Aurora Borealis – photop by Romko, bigstockphoto.com
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sunset, Pebble Beach, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
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