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The whole of planet Earth
Is a sacred site.
All people are the chosen people,
And the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other,
And for the earth, for everything
Relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness,
May we radiate the light of love
And kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Teach Only Love, Facebook
Iguazu Falls – photo by dabidy, bigstockphoto.com
Every being has its own voice. Every being enters into communion with other beings. This capacity for relatedness, for presence to other beings, for spontaneity in action, is a capacity possessed by every mode of being throughout the entire universe. So too every being has rights to be recognized and revered…
~ Thomas Berry
Songbird and Lichen – photo by Yommy, bigstockphoto.com
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.
~ Rudy Francisco
Flax Flowers – photo by danilphotos, bigstockphoto.com
Never lose a holy curiosity. Stop every day to understand and appreciate a little of the mystery that surrounds you and your life will be filled with awe and discovery to the very end.
~ Albert Einstein
Electrical Storm over Lake, Spain – photo by vicenfoto, bigstockphoto.com
Everything around you is alive: believe it. Tell stories to stones, sing to trees, start conversations with birds. Build relationships. You’ll never be lonely again.
~ Sharon Blackie
Tropical Jungle Butterfly – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless..
~ Pema Chödrön
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
Underground, mycorrhizal fungi are crucial trading
partners. Trees crave the nutrients they offer. Fungi
gobble up the carbon that trees provide in return.
To understand this kingdom, fungi aficionados argue, is
to see the natural world differently — less as a collection
of individual species, with humans dominating them all,
and more as a web of organisms dealing with crises
together.
~ New York Times, “Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus”
Amanita Muscaria – photo by Amanita Muscaria 3 vliegenzwammen, Wikipedia Commons
Looking behind I am filled with gratitude,
Looking forward I am filled with vision.
Looking upwards I am filled with strength
and looking within, I discover peace.
~ Apache prayer
Antelope Canyon – photo by neelsky, bigstockphoto.com
There is a different dream that is emerging, a worldview that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all living things, where often, one of the most important roles a human being has is to act as caretaker of the environment and protector of the natural systems that give us life…
Waking up from the trance of separateness creates powerful new possibilities for the future. It is in this spirit of hope that we can come together to nurture a different dream for the world, one that, “brings forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling socially just human presence on this planet.
~ Alexis Lassman
Inside a Giant Redwood – photo by aLunaBlue, bigstockphoto.com
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~ Carlos Santana
Sunrise and Mountain MIst, Phutoke Loei, Thailand – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very minute.
~ Deepak Chopra
Milky Way from Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
As I walk, the universe is walking with me.
In beauty it walks before me.
In beauty it walks behind me.
In beauty it walks above me.
In beauty it walks below me.
Beauty is on every side.
As I walk, I walk with beauty.
~ Navajo Prayer
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by aiisha, bigstockphoto.com
There was a time when the distances between our world and those we considered “imaginary” were no further than a bend in the road. Each cavern and hollow tree was a doorway to another world. Humans recognized life in all things. The streams sang and the winds whispered ancient words into the ears of whomever would listen. Every blade of grass and flower had a tale to tell…There was life and purpose in all things and there was loving interaction between the worlds.
~ Ted Andrews
Cave Hole and Tree – photo by pedphoto36pm. bigstockphoto.com
And so it is this, we might say, that defines a shaman; the ability to readily slip out of the collective perceptual boundaries that define his or her culture—boundaries held in place by social customs, taboos, and especially the common language—in order to directly engage, and negotiate with, the multiple nonhuman sensibilities that animate the local earth.
~ David Abram
Great Egret – photo by tomado98, bigstockphoto.com
