We talk often about the ripple effects of kind acts. Science is now confirming that kindness is actually contagious because seeing others perform acts of kindness elicits a natural neurochemical response within us which makes us act more altruistically towards others. This phenomenon is called “moral elevation”. Even watching acts of kindness can improve pathways in our brain!
~ KindSpring.org
Deep Jungle, Thailand – phot6o by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
~ Nelson Mandela
Apple Blossoms – photo by LUMIKK5555, bigstockphoto.com
It is commonly known by indigenous people that high-frequency vibrations activate consciousness, nourish what is hungry or weak, heal what is sick, and invite in the most luminous forces of Nature.
~ Arkan Lushwala
Callanish Stones at Sunset, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware—then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.
~ David Abram
Desert Sunset near Phoenix, AZ – photo by Jeni Foto, bigstockphoto.com
There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy mess, the conditions for rebirth are being created.
~ Parker Palmer
Sunrise, Old Man’s Cave Gorge, Hocking Hills State Park, OH – photo by Larry Knupp, bigstockphoto.com
Embracing the feminine archetype (which tends to be more open, allowing, forgiving, bodily aware, and integrating) will enable humanity to move beyond the aggressive and competitive mind set of the industrial era and to promote the caring and cooperation that are the vital foundation for a sustainable future.
~ Duane Elgin, “The Living Universe”
Queen Nefertiti Rock, Arches National Park, UT – photo by Bill Perry, bigstockphoto.com
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
The Twelve Apostles at Sunset, Australia – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Kingfisher in the Rain – photo by davemhuntphotography, bigstockphoto.com
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
~ Arundhati Roy
First Light, Mt. Kanchenjugha, Himalayas – photo by Rudra Narayan Mitra, bigstockphoto.com
…my being partakes of your being and that of all beings. This goes beyond interdependency—our very existence is relational…therefore, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Picture Lake, WA – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
…everything that has form in this world has a spiritual dimension…everything in this world is connected…everything we do to bring harmony, anywhere and at any time, has repercussions elsewhere.
~ Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within
Yosemite Sunrise – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.
~ Nikola Tesla
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with–everyone blooms.
~ Marion Woodman
Apple Blossom – photo by vinbergv, bigstockphoto.com
…Gregory Matloff’s ideas are shocking. The veteran physicist at New York City College of Technology recently published a paper arguing that humans may be like the rest of the universe in substance and in spirit. A “proto-consciousness field” could extend through all of space, he argues. Stars may be thinking entities that deliberately control their paths. Put more bluntly, the entire cosmos may be self-aware.
~ Corey S. Powell
Globular Star Cluster – photo by NASA
If we want to reconstitute this oneness—the whole whose conscious reflections we are—we need to do so through the way we create meaning together and through the narrative we tell about our interbeing.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Sun, Sea, Sky – photo by West Coast Scapes, bigstockphoto.com
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