This new era requires a change of consciousness and values—an expansion of our worldviews and ethics. The evolutionary life impulse moves us forward from viewing ourselves as isolated individuals and competing nation states to realizing our collective presence as a species with a common origin story and shared destiny.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme
Norway – photo by Andrey Armyagov, bigstockphoto.com
Einstein on Pantheism:
Albert Einstein the brilliant German-Jewish physicist was pantheist, one might even say a “lapsed atheist”. He was an atheist as a young man and only came to pantheism in old age. He saw what other great thinkers such as Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan saw. That is that even though there may not be a deity pulling the strings that there was “something there”. Some kind of organizing force behind life.We can call this Brahman, the Oversoul, the Paramatman, the Great Spirit or just the One.
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.” ~ Albert Einstein
~ From the Pantheism FB page
Milky Way Over Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Andriy Maygutyak, bigstockphoto.com
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Bungan Beach, Australia – photo by loveleah, bigstockphoto.com
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
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