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…we too are a part of nature, and confront a similar survival struggle as plants do. To illustrate the point, [Stephen} Buhner points out the wonders of plant terpenes, a large group of hydrocarbons found in the oils of plants. Terpenes, he writes, “purify the air, modulate plant emergence, enhance the respiration of the plant community, feed into mycelial networks, and play an essential role in the formation of humic acid.”

According to Buhner, this is prime evidence of how plants are, by their nature, working for the greater good. Plants, he says, “exist not for themselves alone; they create and maintain the community of life on Earth, they produce the chemistries all life needs to live, and they heal other living organisms that are ill.

~ Angelo Druda

Lebanon Cedar Forest – photo by Anna Om, bigstockphoto.com

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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

~ Linda Hogan

Deep Tropical Jungle, Nepal – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com

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Goddess alchemy is learning to see through this dimension into the next and welcome in what you are seeking. Healers, priestesses, and brujas of African descent have used magic for access to healing, protection, and joy since time began.

~ Abiola Abrams

Acacia Tree at Sunset, Amboseli National Park, Kenya – photo by ajn, bigstockphoto.com

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At this time, we encounter] the important dual role of being at one and the same time hospice workers of a dying system that no longer serves and is degenerating human and planetary health, whilst at the same time becoming midwives of the diverse regenerative cultures that manifest humanity’s potential to act as a healing and regenerative expression of presence within the ecosystems we inhabit.

~ Daniel Christian Wahl

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah – photo by RuslanKphoto, bigstockphoto.com

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We should never underestimate the power of kindness to positively affect our world. Simple kindness is a powerful spiritual force. If we had more of it in the world, we could transform society into a manifestation of compassion, and that would truly be a blessing!

~ David Spangler

Tianzi Mountains, Zhangjiajie National Forest, China – photo by effred, bigstockphoto.com

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About Liminal, “Thin”, and Sacred Places, Paul Devereux writes:

Such places, natural or monumental, are a way we can key into ancient perceptions and knowledge…many were venerated or located specifically at what were perceived as ‘thin’ and ‘liminal’ places—sites where ‘breaking through’ to otherworld dreams or altered mind states…were felt to be more easily accomplished than other places.

It is also possible to listen to ancient sacred sites: the sound the wind or nearby waters (rapids, waterfalls, springs) make at them the echoes at or around them, and, particularly, the way their acoustics respond to sounds made around or within them…We found that even the source area of the Stonehenge bluestones, around Carn Menyn in the Preseli Hills of South Wales, is a veritable soundscape, thanks to a preponderance of natural ringing rocks and lithophones.

Callanish Stones at Sunset, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com

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Lakota Instructions for Living
 
Friend do it this way – that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.

~ Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman

Timber Wolves – photo by Josef Pittner, bigstockphoto.com

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This is what I have to say to you…
Live as if the earth exhales blessings in your direction,
As if the trees speak their deepest secrets
In your ear,
As if bird songs can lift you outside your
Ordinary state of mind and bring you into truth.
Be the creative juice flowing through the universe.
Be compassion in action and wholeness in motion.
Be silence and stillness, the ocean of love so
Palpable that not one cell of you disputes the truth
That you are love.
Be so open to your destiny that it
Unfurls like a banner in the sky, a sign saying,
“Live with gratitude, generosity, and grace.”

~ Danna Faulds

Sunset, El Matador State Beach, CA – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com

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Participatory consciousness emerges in relationship with an animate world, an ensouled universe with both a past and an unfolding future. Rivers and mountains, galaxies and microbes are physical and psychic presences with their own stories and longings. I believe that Thomas Berry not only expressed participatory consciousness, but that he helped evoke it in others, and that this evocation was one of his finest gifts to Earth and to the human species.

~ Geneen Marie Haugen

Tropical Jungle – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com

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We are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye. There is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. Ubuntu speaks about the fact that you can’t exist in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world… It is to say, ‘My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life.

~ Desmond Tutu

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com

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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

~ Max Planck

Aurora Borealis, Lofoten Islands, Norway – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com

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In the human spirit, as in the universe, nothing is higher or lower; everything has equal rights to a common center which manifests its hidden existence precisely through this harmonic relationship between every part and itself.

~ Goethe

Sunset, Autumn Forest – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com

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