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Portal to Multidimensional Living

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Plants, it turns out, really are highly conscious, intelligent and yes, they do have a brain. It’s just that no one ever looked in the right place.

Depth analysis of plant consciousness since the turn of the (new) millennium is finding that their brain capacity is much larger than previously supposed, that their neural systems are highly developed—in many instances as much as that of humans, and that they make and utilize neurotransmitters identical to our own. It is beginning to seem that plants are highly intelligent, feeling beings—perhaps as much or even more so than humans in some instances. (They can even perform sophisticated mathematical computations and make future plans based on extrapolations of current conditions. The mayapple, for instance, plans its growth two years in advance based on weather patterns.)

~ Stephen Harrod Buhner

Forest at Dawn – photo by Labunskiy K. bigstockphoto.com

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Modern peoples…have mainly forgotten that we live in relationship as brothers and sisters with all the beings and forces of the natural world. Our scientific redefinitions of the “unseen” as the “unreal” have caused us to forget that we are all luminous strands in a giant web of belonging.

~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada, “Lessons in Courage”

Elf Garden, Iceland, July 2013 – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir

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Integrity is remembering that as individuals we are indivisible from the whole process in which we are participating — the integral evolution of life and consciousness. Integrity is about embracing the paradox that while most of us live our lives in a state of consciousness that separates subject and objects, self and world, even humanity and nature, there is a deeper ground of being and becoming — a quantum-entangled, implicate order of fundamental interconnectedness and co-creative reciprocity. We are individual nodes of consciousness.

~ Daniel Christian Wahl

Lotus – photo by Martha Paradis

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All LIFE co-exists and co-creates as ONE. Mother Earth is our shared home, an evolving self-regenerating landscape that connects, nurtures and sustains all of us together. She recycles water and air, atoms and molecules. Sharing equally with ALL. Nature, our mother (who some call Gaia) is in truth more like a planetary cell or cosmic womb than a lonely rock spinning through space. ALL LIFE is Sacred. We are ONE Earth Community. Her life is our life..

~ Christopher Chase

Sunset, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir

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[The] future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited. “Use” as our primary relationship with the planet must be abandoned…

~ Thomas Berry

Keel Billed Toucan, Belize – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com

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In the forest the deer raise their heads. The eagle and the hawk glide above, piercing the thin air with their sharp cries. The buffalo gather in a circle. The wind in the trees falls silent. Something sacred comes this way. The Spirit comes this way. The unity of creation is not an idea, but a feeling. It is kinship. Open your heart and it will be there.

~ Steven Charleston

Red Deer Stag in Autumn Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com

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We are slowed-down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

~ Albert Einstein

Waterfall and Lagoon, Mt. Tomah, Australia – photo by lovlerah, bigstockphoto.com

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Being “for” expands your heart. Being “against” contracts it. Feel this.

The energy you radiate from your chest is a thousand times more powerful than the opinion you hold in your head…

~ Fred LaMotte

Sunset, Garda Lake, Italy – photo by Alberto SevenOnSeven, bigstockphoto.com

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Practice guerrilla compassion — silently blessing people on-line at the bank, at the supermarket, in the cars next to us in traffic. Each blessing a tiny Sabbath, a secret sanctuary offered to a hurried and unsuspecting world.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Autumn Leaf – photo by Marjan Cermelj, bigstockphoto.com

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Earth Mother teach me of my kin,
of Hawk, and Dove, and flower,
of blinding sunlight, shady knoll,
desert wind and morning showers.
Teach me every language of
the creatures that sing to me,
that I may count the cadence of
infinite lessons in harmony.

~ Jamie Sams

Desert and Mountains Near Phoenix, AZ – photo by Jeni Foto, bigstockphoto.com

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What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Raja Ampat, Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia – photo by attiamdt, bigstockphoto.com

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