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Water isn’t just for drinking or washing.
Water has its own spirit.
Water is alive.
Water has memory.
Water knows how you treat it.
You should get to know water, too.
~ Wabinoquay Otsoquaywhan, Anishinaabe Nation
Iguazu Falls – photo by saiko3p, 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
St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park – photo by kanonsky, bigstockphoto.com
Gratefulness draws on the best of the human spirit in all of us. It renews and refreshes us, and best of all it is contagious.
~ Amy Edelstein
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by Dean Fikar, bigstockphoto.com
I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature – my loyal friend and companion – always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed.
~ Tom North
Iceland Sunset – photo by rasica, bigstockphoto.com
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
Green Forest in Misty Morning, Phuket, Thailand – photo by kovalva, bigstockphoto.com
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
~ Mary Dunbar
Bohey Dulang Island, Borneo – photo by Zulkiffle Mohd Kassim, bigstockphoto.com
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
~ Joy Harjo
Egret in Rainforest River – photo by WhitcombeRD, bigstockphoto.com
Just for a moment, drop your opinions. The world will survive without them for a little while. This is a spiritual practice, is it not? Drop your opinions and feel the freedom, the ineffable clarity, the boundless expansion. Do this not just for yourself, but for the whole entangled field of consciousness. Even a moment of inward silence is of great service to humanity.
~ Fred LaMotte
Sun Rays in Deep Forest – photo by Subbotina Anna, bigstockphoto.com
We are undergoing a species level [rite] of passage and it is time to come home into the community of life, not to exert ‘power-over’, but to enable ‘power-with’. We can co-create a world of shared abundance rather than competitive scarcity, but to do so it is time to become mature members of the community of life. We need to redesign the human presence and impact on Earth from being exploitative and degenerative to being regenerative and healing. What’s more, we need to do this within the lifetimes of those alive today.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Mountain Lake Sunset, Altai Mountains – photo by PrimePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear, people who can open to the web of life that called us into being, and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.
~ Joanna Macy
The Kumano Kodo Trail, Sacred Trail in Nachi, Japan – photo by SeanPavonePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
One of the greatest sovereign powers that we all wield as human beings, although often unknowingly or without awareness, is the power of choosing where to place our attention.
~ Paul Levy
Sunrise, Sulu Sea, Pacific Ocean – photo by Eugene Ga, bigstockphoto.com
Consciousness exists in everything, but manifests itself in different ways. The scientific field of neurobiology has been effective in demonstrating consciousness in plants. Plant consciousness is evidenced by the process of bio-communication in plant cells, which means that plants are sentient life forms that feel, know, and are conscious.
~ Paul Lenda
Tropical Jungle – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
~ Rachel Carson
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness,
Courageous in thought,
Generous in love.
~ John O’Donohue
Giant Sequoia – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
We are a part of the sacred and it is a part of us—it belongs to our real nature. It is only the disconnection of our culture, its fundamental forgetfulness, that has isolated us within our own individual ego self, seemingly separate, struggling, unsupported by this basic energy and power within creation. Once we have learned to walk in a sacred manner, our feet touching the earth, we honor this connection that links our soul to the world soul, our breath to the breath of the spirit, that reveals our individual story as a part of the Earth’s story.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mountaintop Tree at Evening Time – photo by Sanja22, bigstockphoto.com
