We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Northern Lights, Alaska – photo by JCB5754, bigstockphoto.com
Reciprocity is rooted in the understanding that we are not alone, that the Earth is populated by non-human persons, wise and inventive beings deserving of our respect.
We are surrounded by teachers and mentors who come dressed in foliage, fur, and feathers. There is comfort in their presence and guidance in their lessons.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Forest and Stag – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
There are times I catch myself believing that there is something that is separate from something else…
~ Gregory Bateson
Elephants, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo by javarman, bigstockphoto.com
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse
Inside the Cave, Behind the Waterfall, Rifle Falls, CO – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Each of us brings something alive in the world that no one else can. There is a profound necessity at the heart of individuality. When your life awakens and you begin to sense the destiny that brought you here, you endeavor to live a life that is generous and worthy of the blessing and invitation that is always calling you.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
Oh Eagle, come with wings outspread in sunny skies.
Oh Eagle, come and bring us peace, thy gentle peace.
Oh Eagle, come and give new life to us who pray.
Remember the circle of the sky, the stars, and the brown eagle,
the great life of the Sun, the young within the nest.
Remember the sacredness of things.
~ Pawnee Prayer
Bald Eagle, Couer d’Alene, Idaho – photo by gjohnstonphoto, bigstockphoto.com
It is time for us to apply the spiritual forms of healing to the ecological crisis of our times, while embracing shamanism as a way of life. In order to have long-term healing, we must live a life that honors and respects the earth and all of life.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Giant Sequoias, Sequoia National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
…The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live—one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Lianos de Cortez Waterfall, Costa Rica – photo by bilberryphotography, bigstockphoto.com
In the past, shamans, priests, and priestesses were the keepers of the sacred knowledge of life…They helped people remember that all trees are divine and that all animals speak to those who listen.”
~ Ted Andrews, “Animal Speak”
Bryce Canyon in Winter – photo by Songquan Deng, bigstockphoto.com
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Winter Forest and River – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
If we look at the idea of planetary consciousness from the perspective of an individual, we could describe it as a state of consciousness in which a person identifies on some level with the entire human species and/or the entire community of life on Earth.
~ David Nicol
Giraffe at Sunset, Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa – photo by Fabio Lamanna, bigstockphoto.com
When the powers of nature are the focus of your awareness and your thoughts, you come near to spirit, near to the source of all life. This is why most people love to walk in the woods or by the sea: they come close to the original source, and it is healing just to be in its presence. It cleanses you, brings peace of mind, touches your heart and brings you home to your soul.
~ Chris Luttichau
Sunrise in An Alpine Forest – photo by panaramka, bigstockphoto.com
…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
~ Arjun Walia
Aurora Borealis, Yukon, Canada – photo by PiLens, bigstockphoto.com
There are also all the subtle realms. For some extraordinary reason, we as a culture have dismissed, forgotten rejected. And yet they belong to all of the different spiritual traditions—the shaman who works with the spirit world, the Tibetan Buddhist who works with deities, devas, and the land, or the Christian monk who prays to angels and icons of the saints, and even the Zen monk immersed in the Void in this realm
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Interview with David Nicole
Mystic Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye, Scotland – photo by Overbum, bigstockphoto.com
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.
~ Joan Halifax
Winter Forest at Sunset – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
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