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Recognizing that plants, for instance, have consciousness, or that their simple presence in our environment has healing effects, reintroduces an element of wonder and mystery back into the experience of the natural world.
~ Sayer Ji
Royal Gardens of Peradenia, Sri Lanka – photo by Oskanov, bigstockphoto.com
We humans have offered ourselves the illusion that we are somehow at the top of a pyramid of “evolved importance and superiority” amongst the array of life forms on the planet. We have told ourselves that we are separate in some fundamental way. My constant question is, how do we allow ourselves to recognize and experience that all life forms are equal children of Gaia, of our beautiful planet, that all express a particular and valued form and quality of consciousness, and that every life we encounter anywhere, anytime, is kin?
~ Nancy J. Napier
Wild Wood Mouse – photo by CreativeNaturePhotography, bigstockphoto.com
This new era requires a change of consciousness and values—an expansion of our worldviews and ethics. The evolutionary life impulse moves us forward from viewing ourselves as isolated individuals and competing nation states to realizing our collective presence as a species with a common origin story and shared destiny.
~ Mary Tucker and Brian Swimme, “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”
Gotland, Sweden – photo by Olga Miltsova, bigstockphoto.com
It is commonly known by indigenous people that high-frequency vibrations activate consciousness, nourish what is hungry or weak, heal what is sick, and invite in the most luminous forces of Nature.
~ Arkan Lushwala
Sunrise, Monument Valley – photo by Melissa Kopka, bigstockphoto.com
He sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Mountain River – photo by Ale-ks, bigstockphoto.com
From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else — as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.
~ Daniel Quinn
Zen Garden – photo by SergWSQ, bistockphoto.com
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
…We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
~ Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Lake Hintersee, Upper Bavaria, Germany – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
I want to make it clear that my intention of presenting this information is to demonstrate that thoughts, intentions, prayer and other units of consciousness can directly influence our physical material world. Consciousness can be a big factor in creating change on the planet. Sending thoughts of love, healing intent, prayer, good intention, and more can have a powerful influence on what you are directing those feelings towards.
~ Arjun Walia
“Awakening” – Ocean Sunrise – photo by EdVal, bigstockphoto.comw
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
Elephants, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo by javarman, bigstockphoto.com
We can give gifts of presence to each other, but first we need to see each other… We need to not let others be invisible in our presence. When this happens, blessings flow… and the world becomes a bit nicer, a bit more conscious, a bit more loved and loving.
~ David Spangler
Summer, Bucegi Mountains, Transylvania, Romania – photo by Project-Photo, bigstockphoto.com
We and the Earth are one
The Earth is our mother, nourishing and protecting us in every moment–giving us air to breathe, fresh water to drink, food to eat and healing herbs to cure us when we are sick. Every breath we inhale contains our planet’s nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor and trace elements. When we breathe with mindfulness, we can experience our interbeing with the Earth’s delicate atmosphere, with all the plants, and even with the sun, whose light makes possible the miracle of photosynthesis. With every breath we can experience communion. With every breath we can savor the wonders of life.
We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth. Look around you–what you see is not your environment, it is you.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hanging Rock, Blue Mountains, Australia – photo by loveleah, bigstockpohoto.com
There is a soul force in the Universe, which if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
~ Mahatma Ghandi
Sunset, National Park Retezat, Romania = photo by rechitansorin, bigstockphoto.com
The significance…is for us to wake up, and realize that 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.
Studies have shown that positive emotions and operating from a place of peace within oneself can lead to a very different experience for the person emitting those emotions and for those around them. At our subatomic level, does the vibrational frequency change the manifestation of physical reality? If so, in what way? We know that when an atom changes its state, it absorbs or emits electromagnetic frequencies, which are responsible for changing its state. Do different states of emotion, perception and feelings result in different electromagnetic frequencies? Yes! This has been proven.
~ consciousreminder, Facebook
Northern Lights, Jokulsarlon Lagoon, Iceland – photo by zintiara7, bigstockphoto.com
Contemporary human beings have confined themselves almost exclusively to the identification with the physical body and the idea of being a fragmented unit. Shamanic experience is one way in which it is possible to perceive others, the world and ourselves in their original united forms again.
One of the basic experiential assumptions of shamanism is that I am not a separated physical being: I am an energy field or I am part of the whole. Actually, from a more genuine shamanic perspective, the entire notion of I, seen as separate from you and them, does not make any sense at all.
~ Gilbert Ross
Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by Elleon Zebon, bigstockphoto.com
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
~ Wendell Berry
Tropical Forest, Thailand – photo by Fahroni, bigstockphoto.com
