The first time I entered into a redwood forest…I dropped to my knees and began crying because the spirit of the forest just gripped me.
~ Julia Butterfly Hill
Redwood Forest – photo by aLunaBlue, bigstockphoto.com
Empirical studies have begun to demonstrate that many people in advanced industrial cultures resonate deeply with what could be called nature spirituality or nature religion. Some of these people view the world as full of spiritual intelligences with whom one can be in relationship…while others among them perceive the earth to be alive or even divine.
~ Bron Taylor
Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossoms – photo by kam684, 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. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sunset, Monument Valley – photo by vent du sud, bigstockphoto.com
…nature teems with consciousness through and through. Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit, and therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred to its deepest roots.
~ Christian de Quincey, “Radical Nature: The Soul of Nature”
Akaka Falls, Hawaii – photo by Amanda Adili
We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.
~ Bruce Lipton
A New Day Dawning, Yosemite Sunrise – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
If we are being the very thing we would like the world to become, we will already be at peace.
~ Adyashanti
Lake Obersee, Switzerland – photo by panaramka, bigstockphoto.com
We are now called to respond with compassion and wisdom to meet the challenges of our world, fuelled by sacred energy to act to preserve our planet. This energy, burning in every cell of our hearts and minds, souls, and bodies, will give us the courage and vision to heal and transform the earth.
~ Andrew Harvey
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China – photo by effred, bigstockphoto.com
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Antelope Canyon, AZ – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
Many of us humans (thankfully not all) have lived with the illusion that we are at the top of an evolutionary pyramid where we enjoy a position of being superior to other life forms on the planet. I think of this as a “humancentric” attitude. In Western cultures, we have been taught that we are separate in some fundamental way from the other life here on earth. How do we recognize and experience that all life forms are equal offspring of Gaia, that all express their particular and valued forms and qualities of consciousness, and that every life we encounter anywhere, anytime, is our earth-kin?
~ Nancy J. Napier
Goliath Heron, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo by JohanSwanepoel, bigstockphoto.com
I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
~ John O’Donohue
The Upper Clydach River, Swansea Valley, South Wales, UK – photo by Leighton R, bigstockphoto.com
Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
~ Robert J. Furey
Blue Caves of Zakynthos, Greece – photo by Krivosheev Vitaly, bigstockphoto.com
The challenge for religion and ethics is both to re-vision our role as citizens of the universe and to reinvent our niche as members of the earth community.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Zion National Park, UT – photo by reisegraf.ch, bigstockphoto.com
If Earth breathes, sweats and quakes — if it births zillions of organisms that ceaselessly devour, transfigure and replenish its air, water and rock — and if those creatures and their physical environments evolve in tandem, then why shouldn’t we think of our planet as alive?
~ Ferris Jabr
Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica – photo by CelsoDiniz, bigstockphoto.com
We must have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process. That future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited. “Use” as our primary relationship with the planet must be abandoned.
~ Thomas Berry
Garden of the Gods, CO – photo by onewayphoto, bigstockphoto.com
Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.
~ Masaru Emoto
Rainforest Waterfall, Laos – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com
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