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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Daily Inspiration

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We do not need to plan or devise a “world of the future”; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid “futurology” available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at “the future of the human race”; we have the same pressing need that we have always had – to love, care for, and teach our children.

~ Wendell Berry

Whitney Arch Moonset, photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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I believe that humanity is suffering from a great separation sickness – a real disconnect from nature. My sense is that by understanding animals more deeply, we can begin to heal ourselves.

~ Anna Breytenbach

Elk Herd, Hoh Rainforest – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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The world is not a problem to be solved, it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Gorge Creek Falls, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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The universe is the supreme manifestation of the sacred. This notion is fundamental to establishing a cosmos, an intelligible manner of understanding the universe or even any part of the universe.. We must remember that it is not only the human world that is held securely in this sacred enfoldment but the entire planet. We need this security, this presence throughout our lives. The sacred is that which evokes the depths of wonder. We may know some things, but really we know only the shadows of things.

~Thomas Berry

New Lone Cypress, Point Lobos State Reserve, CA – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Alfred North Whitehead once pointed out that when we really understand the biological and physiological functioning of the human body and the behavior of the molecules which constitute it, it becomes impossible to entertain the notion of a discontinuity between the body and its external environment. Living on this mountain, I can’t help but realize that my body is completely integrated with the body of the mountain. Every time I drink the water that spills out of it into the mountain stream, the cells of my body assimilate it. My body is now largely composed of the water that comes from this mountain. We grow our food in the mountain’s soil. The plants start out as a single seed, and, by taking water, light, and minerals from the mountain, eventually manifest themselves as fruits, vegetables, flowers. Thus, we take the mountain into our very being; we consume it. Our septic system even returns our waste to the mountain. How could we feel separate from it?

~ John Daido Loori

Boulder Creek Falls – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission

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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Weisendanger Falls, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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How strong and good
and sure your earth smells,
and everything that grows there.
Bless us, our land,
and our people.
Bless our forests with mahogany,
wawa and cacao.
Bless our fields
with cassava and peanuts.
Be with us in our countries
and in all of Africa,
And in the whole world.

~ Ashanti prayer – Ghana, Africa

Half Dome Moonrise – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.

~ John O’Donohue

Sunset on the Tantalus Range, Garibaldi Park, BC – photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission

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All you creatures with wings,
Eagle and Bee,
Ichneumon Fly and Wren,
as you fly on our Mother’s breath,
I, your little sister,
ask you,
carry my heartbeat morning prayer
in your wingbeat:
How I love you – How I thank you –
Carry it up to our Mother’s lap,
carry it into our Father’s ear,
carry it
tree times around
the belly of the Earth.

~ Megan Boyd

Eagle in flight – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission

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The earth is at the same time mother. She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of humankind contains all moisture, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw materials for humankind, but also the substance of incarnation.

~ Hildegard of Bingen

Springtime in Big Sur, CA – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

~ James Lovelock

Ruby Beach Sunset – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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It is my intention for the Earth
That the air be clear,
That the water be pure,
That the ground be nurturing,
That all living things
Exist in harmony and balance.
May we and our descendants
Walk in beauty all of our lives.

~ Frank Saxton

Sun’s Kiss, Delicate Arch – Arches National Park, Utah – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Honor the Sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor the Elders.
Honor all with whom we share the Earth: four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones, swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people.
Walk in balance and beauty.

~ Native American Elder

Crater Lake, photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission

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It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame…
Joy is there Everywhere.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Spring Surprise, Yucca and McWay Fall, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur Coast, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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