Our individual spiritual journey is part of the world’s journey. To deny this is to live inside the illusion of separation. A simple awareness of oneness unites us with all of life, with every stone, every insect, every dream almost lost before waking. We are life itself, breathing, suffering, rejoicing. We are the pain of the sick and the laughter of the child. We are neither better nor worse than any particle of creation. Our hunger for the Source, our search for the Divine, is life’s hunger, life’s search. We need to give our journeying back to life and acknowledge the oneness that unites everything. Nothing is separate. All is One.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Yosemite National Park at Sunrise – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Daily Inspiration
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For Peace
As the fever of the day calms toward twilight
May all that is strained in us come and ease.
We pray for all who suffered violence today,
May an unexpected serenity surprise them.
For those who risk their lives each day for peace,
May their hearts glimpse providence at the heart of history.
That those who make riches from violence and war
Might hear in their dreams the cries of the lost.
That we might see through the fear of each other
A new vision to heal our fatal attraction top aggression.
That those who enjoy the privilege of peace
Might not forget their tormented brothers and sisters.
That the wolf might lie down with the lamb,
That our swords may be beaten into plowshares
And no hurt or harm be done
Anywhere along the holy mountain.
~John O’Donohue
Wildflower, Mt. Rainier National Park, WA – photo by aft2015, bigstockphoto.com
when the world
goes mad
be wildly kind
to everyone
everyone
everyone
everyone ~ you can’t control
much
but you control how
you treat others
in these breaking news
heartbreaking times when nothing feels
certain
let your raw kindness
be a certainty
allow your compassion
to become a North Star
stamped up in
the sky for
others to follow
back home
~ John Roedel
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.
~ Nikola Tesla
Saguaro Cactus and Milky Way, Arizona Desert – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto. com
We are undergoing a species level [rite] of passage and it is time to come home into the community of life, not to exert ‘power-over’, but to enable ‘power-with’. We can co-create a world of shared abundance rather than competitive scarcity, but to do so it is time to become mature members of the community of life. We need to redesign the human presence and impact on Earth from being exploitative and degenerative to being regenerative and healing. What’s more, we need to do this within the lifetimes of those alive today.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
New Life in the Forest – photo by Everst Comunity, bigstockphoto.com
Water is sacred. The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale. When the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree… We are all from the Earth…
~Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman
Grand Canyon – phopto by fotoping, bigstockphoto.com
Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
~ Robert J. Furey
Forest Waterfall – photo by Gordan, bigstockphoto.com
Can love, in its unaccountable weirdness, hope to overcome a culture of individualism built on denying all our millions of kinships and dependencies? That is our central drama now.
~ Richard Powers
Farmer with Buffalo – photo by sutipond somnam, bigstockphoto.com
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~ Carlos Santana
Northern Lights Over Alaska – photo by JCB5754, bigstockphoto.com
…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.
~ Arjuna Walia
Sunrise, Lake Wakatipu, Queentown, New Zealand – photo by nismailm, bigstockphoto.com
When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with large machines.
~ Peter Wohlleben
Giant Sequoias, Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited.
Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, all these have voices and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.
~ Thomas Berry
Night Thunderstorm – photo by Alik Mulikov, bigstockphoto.com
I pledge allegiance to the Earth,
and to the flora, fauna, and human life that it supports,
one planet indivisible,with safe air, water and soil,
economic justice, equal rights,and peace for all.
~ Women’s Environment and Development Organization
Lake Sunset – photo by Maren Winter, bigstockphoto.com
Everything that exists contributes to the overall cosmic web at each moment, whether it is conscious of its participation or not.
~ Duane Elgin
Full Moon, Yosemite Tunnel, Yosemite National Park – photo by RodPhotography, bigstockphoto.om
Love is the light in which we see each thing in its true origin, nature, and destiny. If we could look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitation, possibility, and depth.~
John O’Donohue
Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO – photo by pilgrims49, bigstockphoto.com
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