Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten—it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mt. Fuji, Japan – photo by CCF.S, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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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
Islands of Fam Island, sea of Raja Ampat, Papual, New Guinea – photo by attiarndt, bigstockphoto.com
The world is not going to be saved by politicians or corporations, but by those in service to the real need of both humanity and the Earth—those who truly care for “our common home.” Higher knowledge has always come from within, but it needs those committed to this revelation to bring it into life, to unite the inner and the outer and help in awakening the world into its spiritual nature.
Our eyes can see the plight of our world, the problems we have created. Our hearts and our consciousness can be attuned to the oneness and the harmony and peace that are within. Bringing together these different levels of awareness enable the inner to influence the outer.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, Colorado – photo by Ron McKenzie, bigstockphoto.com
We can use the practice of deep listening to go beyond what our ordinary ears can hear, reaching the divine voice that speaks of the loving feminine wisdom that connects us all. To be of ultimate service to the planet we must reconnect to the divine feminine that teaches us the power of change that comes from being, as opposed to doing.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Erawan Cascade, Erawan Falls National Park, Thailand – photo by tupikov, bigstockphoto.com
The magic skills of the shaman are rooted in his or her ability to shift out of his common state of awareness in order to contact, and learn from, these other powers in the surrounding earth. Only by regularly shedding the accepted perceptual logic of his culture can the shaman hope to enter into relation with other species on their own terms; only by altering the common organization of her senses is she able to make contact and communicate with the other shapes of sentience and sensitivity with which human existence is entwined.
~ David Abram
Snowy Egret, Costa Rica – photo by UlyssePixel, bigstockphoto.com
Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.
~ Eleanor O’Hanlon
Sunlight and Ocean Waves – photo by Lynne Williamson, bigstockphoto.com
When the powers of nature are the focus of your awareness and your thoughts, you come near to spirit, near to the source of all life. This is why most people love to walk in the woods or by the sea: they come close to the original source, and it is healing just to be in its presence. It cleanses you, brings peace of mind, touches your heart and brings you home to your soul.
~ Chris Luttichau
Bialowieza Forest, Poland – photo by Aleksander, bigstockphoto.com
“I’m really trying to convey plants as persons.” Key to this is restoring what Kimmerer calls the “grammar of animacy”. This means viewing nature not as a resource but like an elder “relative” – to recognise kinship with plants, mountains and lakes. The idea, rooted in indigenous language and philosophy (where a natural being isn’t regarded as “it” but as kin) holds affinities with the emerging rights-of-nature movement, which seeks legal personhood as a means of conservation. Kimmerer understands her work to be the “long game” of creating the “cultural underpinnings”.
~ James Yeh, An Interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Guardian
Hoodos, Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by encrier, bigstockphoto.com
Nature has been experimenting with fungi for a billion years, perfecting a lot of powerful survival tools. We can use these tools in fantastic ways—to revive damaged ecosystems, to help offset global warming, and even to prevent diseases.
~ Paul Stamets
Lichen on A Tree Trunk – photo by wishfaery, bigstockphoto.com
To perceive the soul of the Earth requires a sense of what Taoists call the way of life, the fact that everything in our world is in relationship to everything else, that nothing is itself without everything else, and that anything that seems to be a distinct thing is actually an element or strand in a larger pattern.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Dense Rainforest, Kubah National Park, Borneo – photo by Fabio Lamanna, bigstockphoto.com
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Redwoods, Yosemite National Park, CA – photo by f11photo, bigstockphoto.com
Everyone you meet in your life—even total strangers—is already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
~ Steve Pavlina
Grand Canyon – photo by Brian K., bigstockphoto.com
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
~ John Muir
Sunrise, Lac Blanc, Mont Blanc, Vallon de Berard Nature Preserve, Graian Alps – photo by jojjik, bigstockphoto.com
The air that wraps Earth is a single entity, the matrix that holds us all. It is a global commons from which we draw a crucial element of life, sharing as we do molecules that have been breathed in and out of every living thing that has ever breathed on Earth. Molecules that pass through us have passed through brontosaurs, neolithic hunters, Roman emperors, hummingbirds, snails.
~ David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Sun’s Rays Through Storm Clouds – photo by Sergei777, bigstockphoto.com
The unity of existence is not an experience to be created; rather, it is an always-manifesting condition waiting to be appreciated and welcomed into awareness.
~ Duane Elgin
Meadow in Alaska – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
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