The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whispering of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Autumn Leaves – Photo by Indira Darst
Daily Inspiration
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Look around you. This very breath you take isn’t yours alone, it’s a shared symphony with the trees, the wind, the creatures unseen.
~ Deon Emmons
Giant Sequoias during Sunset – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but part of it. Its health is our health.
~ Thomas Moore
Maui, Hawaii – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
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Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.
~ L.R. Knos
Lotus Flower, photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
The answers we seek lie in nature—nature is always sharing her teachings with us. The answers also lie in our own inner wisdom. We must shift the focus of our energy from our heads to our hearts, where we can listen to this wisdom.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, New Zealand – photo by Rawpixel.com, bigstockphoto.com
Our personal attempts to live humanely in this world are never wasted. Choosing to cultivate love rather than anger just might be what it takes to save the planet from extinction.
~ Pema Chödrön
Sunset Sky – photo by Fahroni, bigstockphoto.com
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Night Sky with Stars above Monument Valley, AZ – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world affects the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
~ David Suzuki
Waterfall, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia – photo by TK Kurikawa, bigstockphoto.com
I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
~ Mary Oliver
Saguaro Cactus and the Milky Way, AZ – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto.com
The mountains are my bones,
The rivers are my veins.
The forests are my thoughts,
And the stars are my dreams.
The ocean is my heart,
The pounding is my pulse.
The songs of the earth
Write the music of my soul.
~ Pachamama Alliance
Mount Rainier National Park, WA – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
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
Sun’s Rays in the Deep Forest – photo by Virrange Images, bigstockphoto.com
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
~ Ravi Shankar
Autumn in Golden Beech Trees – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure…The material and the spiritual live together here.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Mushrooms and Moss – photo by danil_1972, bigstockphoto.com
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
~ Rumi
Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
Maybe at times we need to crumble to the ground at the magnificence of it all, awestruck at the bounty laid out before us. To fall apart. To fail. To get back up. To be humbled again. To start over. To be a beginner. An amateur at the ways of love. To make this journey with our kindred travelers and the sun, moon, and stars. And to realize together how little we know in the face of it all.
~ Matt Licata
Milky Way, Stars, and Trees, Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
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