Uniformity is not nature’s way; diversity is nature’s way.
~ Vandana Shiva
Long-Eared Owl – photo by Martin Grossman, bigstockphoto.com
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…every act we make, every word we speak, every thought we think is not only affected by the other elements in the vast web of being in which all things take part, but also has results so far-reaching that we cannot see or imagine them.
~ Joanna Macy
Sunset, Arches National Park, Utah – photo by Radomir Rezny, bigstockphoto.com
What if our purpose here is simply to keep this mysterious force we call love from going extinct, by choosing to preserve it as often as possible, even when our minds crave the darker, more familiar feelings of blame and worry?
~ James Crews
Giant Bloom on Echinopsis Schickendantzii Cactus, Argentina – photo by Sara Edwards, bigstockphoto.com
…we must remember that in oneness we are connected to all of life on this earth, joined together in a web of life. This means we must live from a place of honor and respect. We are part of nature, not separate from it.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Godafoss Waterfall, Iceland – photo by Fyletto, bigstockphoto.com
The true light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true light, and this true light is that of love.
~ White Eagle
Summer Meadow at Sunrise – photo by Yanika, bigstockphoto.com
We are not here on Earth to be alone, but to be a part of a living community, a web of life in which all is sacred. Like the cells of our body, all of life is in constant communication, as science is just beginning to understand. No bird sings in isolation, no bud breaks open alone. And the most central note that is present in life is its sacred nature, something we need to each rediscover and honor anew. Today’s world may still at times make us feel lonely, but we can then remember what every animal, every insect, every plant knows and only we have forgotten: the living sacred whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Bryce Canyon through Pine Branches – photo by baluzek, bigstockphoto.com
In our quest for happiness and the avoidance of suffering, we are all fundamentally the same, and therefore equal. Despite the characteristics that differentiate us—race, language, religion, gender, wealth and many others—we are all equal in terms of our basic humanity.
~ Dalai Lama
Sun Over the Ocean – photo by Lynne Williamson, bigstockphoto.com
We all have encounters with the sacred, we just have to cultivate the eye that can perceive them. We have to see what’s already here, interwoven with what we claim is human and mundane. We have to take inventory of the magic that conspires to love us in and through our ordinary lives.
~ Meggan Watterson
Deep Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
May the energy emanating
from every step I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every breath I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every action I take
re-sanctify the Earth.
May the energy emanating
from every thought, action,
word and deed of all humanity
re-sanctify the Earth.
And so, by this exchange
of blessings may grow,
in symbiosis,
the consciousness of Oneness.
~ Ann Palmer
Earth – photo from NASA PIA18033~orig.jpg