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What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.
~ Ganga White
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, Carmel, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafiz
Sunrise, Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse
Tree in Snow – photo by jaapbleijenberg, bigstockphoto.com
When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn’t matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Rising Son in Yosemite National Park – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
As long as I’m alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
~ Muhammad Ali
White Lily – photo by pavel_klimenko, bigstockphoto.com
We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and to learn what is good for it. We must learn to cooperate in its processes, and to yield to its limits.
But even more important, we must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.
~ Wendell Berry
Meteora Valley at Sunset, Greece – photo by Lhboucault, bigstockphoto.com
How could people not see such beings as ancestors, as holders of secrets from the great beyond?
~ Jori Lewis
Mariposa Grove, Yosemite – photo by cphoto, bigstockphoto.com
We are walking ecosystems with more non-human than human cells in and on the body we call self. Interbeing is not a concept, it describes the relational matrix of health in which we take our being and live our lives while co-creating the very process we emerged from.
~Daniel Christian Wahl
Keystone, CO – photo by Jen Silacci
May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my life contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all.
~ Sanskrit Prayer for Peace
Victoria Lily – photo by Whiskybottle, bigstockphoto.com
In each of us there is a spark that can reverse the trends of violence and depression spiraling within us and in the world around us. By setting in motion the spiral of gratefulness we begin the journey toward peace and joy.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
Sunset – photo by Carol Napier
At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don’t. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought.
~ Tina Turner
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Katharina 13, bigstockphoto.com
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless..
~ Pema Chödrön
Lotus Blossom – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
In the human spirit, as in the universe, nothing is higher or lower; everything has equal rights to a common center which manifests its hidden existence precisely through this harmonic relationship between every part and itself.
~ Goethe
Canadian Otter – photo by jgotwald, bigstockphoto.com
If we can have a holistic view of soil, soul and society, if we can understand the interdependence of all living beings, and understand that all living creatures—from trees to worms to humans—depend on each other, then we can live in harmony with ourselves, with other people and with nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Sunset, Rainforest Jungle – photo by Mihailo K, bigstockphoto.com
Since it is impossible to be outside the reach of collective consciousness, we are faced with a constant opportunity to make a difference by cleaning up our small contribution to the human morphic field. No one else can do this for us; each of us must choose the quality of thought, feeling, and being we want to bring into our individual lives and, thereby, into the reach of everyone else.
~ Nancy Napier
Icelandic Sunset – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
