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When we see our planet from the perspective of space, certain things become undeniably clear. We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss as standalone issues, when in reality, they’re just symptoms of the underlying root problem. And the problem is that we don’t see ourselves as planetary.
~ Ron Garan, NASA astronaut
Earth from the Moon – photo by NASA.webp
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~ John O’Donohue
Karst Landscape, Li River, China – photo by streetflash, bigstockphoto.com
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden rather than fight over the turf.
~ Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Monument Valley – photo by FotoBanka.net, bigstockphoto.com
Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is…Life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy because of you.
~ Pope Francis
Nature’s Beauty, Montana – photo by Jen Silacci
If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos. The cosmos is neither one nor many. When you touch one, you touch many, and when you touch many, you touch one..
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Spring Near the East River, New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to the highest advantage of others…
Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone…
~ Buckminster Fuller
Sequoia National Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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
Sunrise – photo by Mit HPS aul Reisen, bigstockphoto.com
How we see (and feel about) the world will influence our actions and values. When thinking is divided, people tend to focus on defending what they identify with. When our sense of identity is deep and unified, love and kindness circulate in the world more naturally.
~ Christopher Chase
Mountain Lake photo by DmitryP, bigstockphoto.com
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.
~Marshall B. Rosenberg
Early Blossoms, photo by Elizabeth Lehmann
…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
Bold Coast Trail – photo by Terésa Stern
…the growing body of research on plant and animal cognition suggests that non-human personhood is something we will increasingly have to take seriously.
~ Jack Hunter
Fox and Orchids, Europe – photo by Michael Masik, bigstockphoto.com
Compassion is a power with its own sphere of influence, a realm engaged by fine energy patterns that play out as behaviors, such as aspiration, empathy, and the fulfillment of a need to heal…
~ Dolores Krieger
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
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
Redwood Forest, Sequoia National Park – photo by nstanev, bigstockphoto.com
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last, the spring rains will come again.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sunrise over Julian Alps, Slovenia – photo by CreativeNaturePhotography, bigstockphoto.com
The greatest revolution of our time is in the way we see the world. The mechanistic paradigm underlying the Industrial Growth Society gives way to the realization that we belong to a living, self-organizing cosmos.
~ Joanna Macy
Coral Life, Papua New Guinea – photo by desant7474, bigstockphoto.com
