Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but a part of it. Its health is our health.
~ Thomas Moore
Sopoaga Falls, Samoa – photo by Misa Mazurkova, bigstockphoto.com
Daily Inspiration
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With a cosmology of a living universe, a shining miracle exists everywhere. There are no empty places in the world. Everywhere there is life, both visible and invisible. All of reality is infused with a vital presence and this creates a profound relatedness among all things.
~ Duane Elgin
Seascape, Norway – photo by Taiga, bigstockphoto.com
There is a world behind this world. The old cultures used to be in constant conversation with it through the sacred practices of storytelling, dreaming, ceremony, and song. They invited the Otherworld to visit them, to transmit its wisdom to them, so that they might be guided by an ancient momentum.
~ Toko-pa Turner
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Sometimes, if I’m feeling woe is me, or woe is the world, I go outside. I find reason for hope. There are miracles all around us. You see little flowers popping up where it seems so unlikely. You can get so tangled up and so focused on things that surround us every day that you forget that life is a miracle.
~ Sylvia Earle
Flowers in Olive Grove, Sicily – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
Dr. Beatrice Bruteau asks the right question: “How big is your we?” Can we expand our vision of community beyond our own skin, family, race, tribe, culture, country, and species? Spiritual life is more than what we believe, it also includes how we relate. Who is included in the we and who is not? That is both a spiritual and a political question. How we answer it will likely determine our future.
~ Jim Wallis
Spring Blossoms – photo by Kateryna Ovcharenko, bigstockphoto.com
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 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.
~ Radha Sahar
Sunset, Mt. Tibrogargan, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia – photo by Martin Valigursky, bigstockphoto.com
We should never underestimate the power of kindness to positively affect our world. Simple kindness is a powerful spiritual force. If we had more of it in the world, we could transform society into a manifestation of compassion, and that would truly be a blessing!
~ David Spangler
Cosmos Flowers – photo by kamill, bigstockphoto.com
Seeing beyond our filters—our accumulated knowledge and beliefs—does not always come naturally. We have spent years growing attached to them in various degrees, and they feel safe. Whatever we become attached to can begin to shape our future experiences and limit our perception of what exists outside our vocabulary. Like blinders on a horse, our attached beliefs limit our vision, and this in turn limits our perceived direction in life. The stronger our level of attachment, the less we can see.
~ don Miguel Ruiz Jr
False Kiva and Milky Way, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with—everyone blooms.
~ Marion Woodman
Tree Above Black Sea at Sunset – photo by Mr. Smith, bigstockphoto.com
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
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
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