The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Daily Inspiration
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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
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
Over the centuries, human beings have come to care more about collecting material things than supporting Nature’s gifts, people and living creations. There has been a loss of our sense of the Sacredness of Life…We’ve placed more emphasis on wanting, getting, measuring and comparing than on living, loving, learning and being. What we’ve forgotten is that every life is precious and unique. Every day, every moment. Every forest, meadow and stream, every tree, child, river and lake, is a sacred gift from the Universe.
~ Christopher Chase
Deep Montana Forest – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
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
Peacock Eye Butterfly – photo by Elkov, bigstockphoto.com
When we know nature as the mother’s body and everything in nature as utterly sacred then, and then only, will we do everything in our power to preserve, honor and protect nature.
~ Andrew Harvey
Bucegi Mountains, Carpathians, Romania – photo by Project-Photo, bigstockphoto.com
You might want to practice stopping and looking throughout the day, even if only for a few moments. It’s remarkable what we can see when we stop and turn the light of awareness on the things we take for granted.
~ John Brehm
Early Spring, Kawaguchi Lake, Japan at Mt. Fuji -photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, all these have voices and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.
~ Thomas Berry
Bright Full Moon and Stars – photo by kdshutterman, bigstockphoto.com
For thousands of years it has been known that everything that exists in this world is alive and has a spirit.
We are connected to a web of life that reflects the impact of the behavior of all that is alive. We can speak to the spirit of the trees, plants, rocks, rivers, animals, birds, insects, and reptiles and perceive their divine nature. As everything that exists is alive, each being also recognizes the divine in us. The earth is alive and is a sacred being. It is time for us to align with the heartbeat of the earth.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Yosemite National Park, CA – photo by jimjab, bigstockphoto.com
Diversity is the nature of evolution. Evolution has worked for billions of years to create biodiversity, cultural diversity, religious diversity, linguistic diversity and truth diversity. But now, in our mistaken view of the world, we are turning this diversity, which we should be celebrating, into divisions. And now we see each other as separate. When you create divisions you have a conflict. Conflict leads to wars, poverty and injustice. If we wish to reduce, or hopefully remove altogether, the possibilities of conflict, wars, poverty, exploitation, then we have to rise above these divisions which we have created in the world and celebrate our diversity.
~ Satish Kumar
Tropical Landscape at Disk, Thailand – photo by smithore, bigstockphoto.com
Consider the other kingdoms.
The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north have dozens of words to describe its different arrivals. Red Deer Stag in Foggy Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.comOr the creatures, with their thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their infallible sense of what their lives are meant to be.
Thus the world grows rich, grows wild, and you too, grow rich, grow sweetly wild, as you too were born to be.
~ Mary Oliver
Red Deer Stag in Foggy Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
~ Richard Rohr
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Water Lilies – photo by Mesori, bigstockphoto.com
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.
~ Pablo Amaringo
Old Linden Tree, Estonia – photo by Artenex, bigstockphoto.com
Your unity and connection with LIFE and the Universe is a deep spiritual and scientific truth. Reality exists as a beautiful mosaic of interconnection and inter-being. Everything exists in circles of creative interdependence, mutual attraction and sharing.
~ Christopher Chase
Red Rock Cliffs, Zion National Park, UT – photo by eric1513, bigstockphoto.com
…a truly planetary perspective means we see ourselves first and foremost not just as members of the human family but as earthlings in interdependent relationship with all the human and nonhuman members of the Earth community.
~ David Nicol
Hot Springs, Caldeira Velha, Azores, Portugal – photo by Pav-Pro-Photography Ltd.
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