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The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in mountains. And mountains disappear the closer you are to them. As Dogen wrote in the Shobogenzo: “They passed aeons living alone in the mountains and forests; only then did they unite with the Way and use mountains and rivers for words, raise the wind and rain for a tongue, and explain the great void.”

Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

~ Joan Halifax

Photo by Miguel A. Monjas

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May your body be blessed.
May you realize that your body is a faithful and beautiful friend of your soul and may you be peaceful and joyful and recognize that your senses are sacred thresholds.
May you realize that holiness is mindful, gazing, feeling, hearing, and touching.
May your senses gather you and bring you home.
May your senses always enable you to celebrate the universe and the mystery and possibilities in your presence here.
May the eros of the earth bless you.

~ John O’Donohue

Old Growth Douglas First – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

~ Joanna Macy

Vance Creek Ponds – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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Rather than projecting…science fiction images of aliens or galactic travel, I would begin with the microcosmic understanding of what it means to us individually to step outside of the isolated sense we have of our own separate self, and instead embrace and live from a consciousness of oneness in which we KNOW how we are part of an interconnected whole.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Bryce Canyon, KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

~ Herman Melville

Horsetail Fall, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector by which disease passes into health. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

~ Wendell Berry

Denali National Park – photo by Niebrugge Images, used with permission

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. …I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

~ Anne Frank

First Light, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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It would not occur to me…to exhort you to refrain from cutting off your leg. That wouldn’t occur to me or to you, because your leg is part of you. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon Basin; they are our external lungs. We are just beginning to wake up to that. We are gradually discovering that we are our world.

~ Joanna Macy

Douglas Fir Rainforest, by Point North – Images by Frank George III, used with permission

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

~ John Muir

Victoria Falls, Zambia – photo by Aubrey

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When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Rialto Beach, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission

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