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Portal to Multidimensional Living

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Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water. If you water a seed of peace in your mind, peace will grow. When the seeds of happiness in you are watered, you will become happy. When the seed of anger in you is watered, you will become angry. The seeds that are watered frequently are those that will grow strong.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Mossy Bamboo Pipe, Costa Rica – photo by pisces2386, bigstockphoto.com

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We are not in nature, or experiencing nature, we are nature, and all of the elements are within us. We are the earth and the cosmos. And most of all we are love. Munay. This is our mission on earth, to live in reciprocity with each other and all the other aspects, and beings and elements of our planet.

~ The Road to Q’eros Messages from the Andes, FB

Garden of the Gods, Colorado – photo by Mr. Klein, bigstockphoto.com

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…the singularity that people don’t realize, or most people don’t realize is that we are descendants of fungi. We were born from fungi 650 million years ago, fungi gave birth to animals. And so many of these mushroom species are much older than we are. We were basically little voles at the time that mushrooms had their true forms, many of them and so mycelial networks, multicellular organisms, the first evidence of a multicellular organism has been found in Lava Beds, and it is a mycelium.

~ Paul Stamets

Deep Jungle Mushroom – photo by Photosguide, bigstockphoto.com

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Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything. It lives here, profoundly, at One Square Inch in the Hoh Rain Forest. It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.

~ Gordon Hempton

Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park, WA – photo by sphraner, bigstockphoto.com

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Traditional Koyukon people live in a world that watches, in a forest of eyes. A person moving through nature—however wild, remote, even desolate the place may be—is never truly alone. The surroundings are sensate, personified. They feel. They can be offended. And they must, at every moment, be treated with the proper respect.

~ Richard Nelson

Rainforest Creek – photo by Greg Brave, bigstockphoto.com

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Given the distant common ancestry between octopuses and humans, conscious octopuses would mean that consciousness has evolved on earth twice. Godfrey-Smith believes it’s plausible that there are more than two branches of evolution where consciousness independently developed…Based on the current evidence, it seems that consciousness is not particularly unusual at all, but a fairly routine development in nature.

~ Olivia Goldhill

Octopus in Aquarium – photo by Colorshadow, biugstockphoto.com

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Once upon a time, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Male Flame Tanager, Costa Rica – photo by Mark Caunt Photography, bigstockphoto.com

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We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

~ Wendell Berry

Grand Canyon – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com

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If time is my measure, then let me fill it to the brim, pouring out my best, sharing my heart, loving all I can, giving all I have. Let no day be wasted, no chance taken for granted, no moment passed by unseen for the blessing it reveals.

~ Steven Charleston

Lotus Sisters – photo by Ange DiBenedetto

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