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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Daily Inspiration

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We are life, and life is limitless. Perhaps one can say we are the life of the world, and so live the sufferings and joys of others. Having seen the reality of interdependence and entered deeply into its reality, nothing can oppress you any longer. Meditation on interdependence is to be practiced constantly — as an integral part of our involvement in all ordinary tasks. We must learn to see that the person in front of us is ourself and that we are that person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Salt Creek Beach – courtesy of TAO Photography, used with permission

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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that the divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an undefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Everything in nature is alive and influences your thoughts whether you know it or not. Who’s to say the rock does not hear your thoughts? Nor the river, or the mountain ranges? We all belong to this living world and there is nothing that does not belong.

~Tony Ten Fingers, Wanbli Natau, Oglala Lakota

Photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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May the sun bring you new energy by day.
May the moon softly restore you by night.
May the rain wash away your worries.
May the breeze blow new strength into your being.
May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.

~ Apache Blessing

Mt. Rainier and Milky Way – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission

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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

~ Elizabeth Moon, Oath of Fealty

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Every moment is an opportunity to be awake, to be fully present and alive. And yet according to spiritual teachings some moments need to be waited for because they give us a greater opportunity. They are moments that belong not just to the succession of days but the patterns of the soul and rhythms of the cosmos. There are moments when many cycles come together, when our individual and cosmic destinies are aligned…

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Stanley Park Rock Stacker, photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission

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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

~ Elizabeth Moon

Hana Coast, Maui, Hawaii – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Peace originates with the flow of things,
its heart is like the movement
of the wind and waves.
The Way is like the veins that
circulate blood through our bodies,
following the natural flow of the life force.
If you are separated in the slightest
from that divine essence,
you are far off the path.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

North Cascade Waterfall – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission

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