THE INNER LIFEOur time is hungry in spirit. In some unnoticed way we have managed to inflict severe surgery on ourselves. We have separated soul from experience, become utterly taken up with the outside world and allowed the interior life to shrink. Like a stream that disappears underground, there remains on the surface only the slightest trickle. When we devote no time to the inner life, we lose the habit of soul. We become accustomed to keeping things at surface level. The deeper questions about who we are and what we are here for visit us less and less. If we allow time for soul, we will come to sense its dark and luminous depth. If we fail to acquaint ourselves with soul, we will remain strangers in our own lives.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunset, Cathedral Rock, Sedona, AZ – photo by alexeys, bigstockphoto.com
Daily Inspiration
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The use of the heart as an organ of perception and communication, to weave us once again inextricably into the life web of the Earth, to gather knowledge from the heart of the world, and to help us live a whole and fulfilled life, to become who we are meant to be…
~ Stephen Buhner
Mountain Landscape, Svaneti, Georgia – photo by Dzmitrock, bigstockphoto.com
Diversity is the nature of evolution. Evolution has worked for billions of years to create biodiversity, cultural diversity, religious diversity, linguistic diversity and truth diversity. But now, in our mistaken view of the world, we are turning this diversity, which we should be celebrating, into divisions. And now we see each other as separate. When you create divisions you have a conflict. Conflict leads to wars, poverty and injustice. If we wish to reduce, or hopefully remove altogether, the possibilities of conflict, wars, poverty, exploitation, then we have to rise above these divisions which we have created in the world and celebrate our diversity.
~ Satish Kumar
Sunrise, Pearl Beach, Australia – photo by lovleah, bigstockphoto.com
We all are responsible for our Mother Earth and we should not be shy and hold back from the caring. Accept it as our personal responsibility and care. They [all our earth-kin] are all our brothers and sisters. Let us accept that everything around us is our family and we are related. Let us accept that our caring must not only be in words but in action…You are not owners of anything. Mother Earth owns you and you look after her just the same way that you would look after your Mother here because they also have given you lots of other relatives who are not human, but you are still responsible for their welfare and wellbeing.
~ Uncle Bob Randall, Aboriginal Elder
Lagoon Waterfall, Mt. Tomah, Australia – photo by lovleah, bigstockphoto.com
When we walk upon Mother Earth,we always plant our feet carefullybecause we know the faces of our future generationsare looking up at us from beneath the ground.we never forget them.
~ Oren Lyons
Cloudy Sunset, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by CaptureMedia, bigstockphoto.com
…how long will it take before we return to values that support life, that recognise that all life, all creation, is sacred? Not just human beings, but butterflies and spiders, rocks and rivers, grasses and forests, algae and fungi.
When we return our consciousness to this primary awareness, this simple truth known and honoured by our ancestors, Spring will come again. How this Spring will awaken, what buds will flower, what trees will bear fruit, will depend upon our attitude and actions in the coming years and decades…”
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mountain River – photo by viadimicaribb, bigstockphoto.com
Go outside and don’t go to a special place. Just go into your neighbourhood and repeatedly, over and over again, open your ears and harvest the sounds all around you. Whether those are tree sounds or car sounds or bird sounds. Without judgment, just be present for the physical experience of sounds flowing into our consciousness. Do that over and over again and the trees will befriend you — or come into your consciousness and teach you some of what they’re saying.
~ David George Haskell
Virgin Forest, Montenegro Mountains – photo by Alexander Nikiforov, bigstockphoto.com
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification, and as its natural consequence, the practice of non-violence.
~ Arne Naess
Trumpeter Swan – photo by Mr.WildLife, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world shapes 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
Alaska – photo by donna57, bigstockphoto.com
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
California Redwoods – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~ Iris Murdoch
Blooming Cosmos – photo by kamill, bigstockphoto.com
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
~ Willis Harmon
Sunrise, Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com
One belief that I would like you to consider is that; we are one. We are oneness. Our energy, our connectiveness, nature and the earths energetic force are all one. This may sound kinda woo woo and yet, in fact if you embrace this idea watch how your state of mind becomes more optimistic. More connected. More open…
~ Amy Goldberg
Iguazu Falls, Brazilian Side – photo by Tupungato, bigstockphoto.com
We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us. Given this opportunity, we can raise ourselves. We must join hands with the rest of Creation and speak of Common Sense, Responsibility, Brotherhood, and PEACE. We must understand that The Law is the Seed and only as True Partners can we survive.
~ Oren Lyons
Sunset, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by durktalsma, bigstockphoto.com
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the “dialect of moss on stone” an interface of immensity and minuteness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yang.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Stream in the Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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