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The Green Cathedral represents the sacred places, the silent spaces. It elevates the natural landscape to the respectful position it deserves.
It replaces doctrine and dogma. The Green Cathedral recognises the ruins of the past as part of present and future narratives. It attempts to recalibrate the senses and reconsider time. It celebrates the joy of the rural reverie. It is in all countries. It is open to everyone.
~ Benjamin Myers
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
We are not really separate from anything. This understanding, once it truly takes hold, profoundly changes our relationship to our natural circumstance and to each other.
~ Angelo Druda
Crashing Surf and Na’ Pali Cliffs, Kauai, Hawaii, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
…The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live–one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Linville Falls, NC – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.
~Thomas Berry
Lake Moraine – Banff National Park, Canada – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Silver Star Mountain, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. If we are all One Being, then it is foolish for us to hate anyone, as we are only hating ourselves.
~ David Wilcock
Glacier National Park, MT – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission
There are times I catch myself believing that there is something that is separate from something else
~ Gregory Bateson
Double Rainbow Over Makahuena Arch, Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
~ Thomas Merton
Cape Kiwanda, OR – photo by Chris Williams Photography, used with permission
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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~ Swami Sivananda
Cedar Creek, WA – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
~ Nagarjuna
Rock at the End of the Rainbow, North Carolina – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
…The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live–one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
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The mountains, I become a part of it
The herbs, the fir tree, I become a part of it.
The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters,
I become a part of it.
The wilderness, the dew drops, the pollen
I become a part of it.
~ Navajo Chant
Photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
~ Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Artist Point – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
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A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought. I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
~ Hermann Hesse
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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This morning’s post is a little different from what we usually offer. The photograph will show why. As you look at the photo, pay particularly attention to the little green being on the left. Some people may say it’s a photo effect; others may recognize it as a “hello” from the nature realms. Here’s this morning’s quotation:
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
In the woods of Pocantico Hills, NY – photo by Lili Berley, used with permission
