No matter what problem you look at, every ecological problem comes from this illusion that we are separate from nature.
~ Vandana Shiva
Glacier National Park, Montana – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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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
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
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
I think it’s a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn’t their life and our life. Nor your life and my life.
That it’s just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes.
~Kate Forster
Red Squirrel Feeding on Juniper Berries – photo by stefanholm, bigstockphoto.com
All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth.
When we were tribal people, we knew who we were, we knew where we were, and we knew our purpose.
This sacred perception of reality remains alive and well in our genetic memory. We carry it inside of us, usually in a dusty box in the mind’s attic, but it is accessible.
~ John Trudell
Colorful Ocean Sunset – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
The basic principle seems to be: Everything in nature is here for a reason. And until we understand that reason, we better not just go around destroying things.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Northwestern Forest – photo by kvd design, bigstockphoto.com
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Moon Valley in Atacama Desert, Chile at Sunset – photo by Breev Sergey, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth
Is a sacred site.
All people are the chosen people,
And the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other,
And for the earth, for everything
Relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness,
May we radiate the light of love
And kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Teach Only Love, Facebook
Sunrise – photo by wittybear, bigstockphoto.com
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Cardinal – photo by Steve Byland, bigstockphoto.com
If we embrace the sacred within all of life, we will find that life will speak to us as it spoke to our ancestors. A veil will be lifted and this innate knowing will be present again. This is the ancient wisdom of the Earth itself, the Earth which has evolved and changed over millennia, whose wisdom we desperately need at this present time if we are to avoid an even greater ecological disaster.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Forest Stream, Mt. Field National Park, Tasmania – photo by Neale Cousland, bigstockphoto.com
We are all needed, more than we know. We are needed to fulfill the purpose Spirit had for us at the moment of our awakening into the world. We are needed to share our love and vision. We are needed to help others walking with us. I am needed. You are needed. We are all needed. Just as we are.
~ Steven Charleston
Blossoming Dahlia – photo by kip02, bigstockphoto.com
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
~ H.H. the Dalai Lama
Sunrise, Phu Dradueng National Park, Thailand – photo by Boysloso, bigstockphoto.com
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Bascaglia
More Lotus Beauty – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.
~ A.D. Williams
Greater Egret – photo by tornado98, bigstockphoto.com
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