Devadana Sanctuary

Humanity is transitioning into a state of consciousness that will unleash the creative power of togetherness, and the understanding that it’s our heart vibration that qualifies the difference between separation and feeling connected. Increased heart-connected interactions will progressively raise the vibration of collective consciousness. This will set the stage for realizing that inclusive, unconditional love and compassion is the next advanced mode of intelligent living.

~ Doc Childre

El Capitan, Yosemite National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com

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Truth be told, the entire world is conscious. The whole Universe is made of consciousness or “God-stuff”, even supposedly inanimate objects like rocks. As more and more people break the shackles of the false selves and realize their true natures, interspecies communication, including both animal communication and plant communication, will become more and more common.

~ Makia Freeman

Grizzly Bears Fishing, Brooks Falls, Alaska – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

~ Joan Halifax

Horse Head Rock, Bermagui, Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.

~Mary Oliver

Grand Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Each day is a ceremony – if only we could remember. But in the barrage of stimulus and inputs and tasks…we forget, at times, that this, all of this, is holy. One of our essential tasks as human beings, is, and has always been, the enactment of remembrance. This is how we make holy what is beautifully offered. This enactment becomes a response to the call of the world – a way that we confirm, affirm and grow our relationship with the web of Life.

~ Laura Weaver

Black Sea Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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I believe the universe is one being; all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole … The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine…

~ Robinson Jeffers

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

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…we must remember that in oneness we are connected to all of life on this earth, joined together in a web of life. This means we must live from a place of honor and respect. We are part of nature, not separate from it.

~ Sandra Ingerman

Desert Sunset – photo by Jeni Foto, bigstockphoto.com

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We are called to revise our entire cultural story about what it means to be human and what our relationship ought to be with each other, the planet, and the cosmos…love is the crucial ingredient in the transition…

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Waterfall, Costa Rican Rainforest – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com

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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.

~ Thomas Berry

Band-Bellied Owls, Ecuador – photo by Martin Grossman, bigstockphoto.com

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Would that begin to heal the wound? If we were to see not just the half of the tree that towers above the ground but the half that lives beneath it. If we were to see that great complex of roots connected to all of the other trees in the woodland by networks of mycelium that act almost as a neural network, connecting up communities of living beings, sending and receiving signals. If we were to see this network, this community, as alive, as in some way aware. If we were to understand that when we tug on one leaf it is connected to everything else in the world.

If we saw trees as living, connected, aware—would we change our ways in relation to them, and would that change us?

~ Paul Kingsnorth

Autumn Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We breathe in oxygen given to us by the trees, drink water from lakes and springs, take in materials from trees and plants that grow in the earth, their leaves gathering energy from our local star, the sun. Every moment of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not, we live in unity and intimate connection with the creative wisdom of the natural world.

~ Christopher Chase, “Shifting Paradigms: Aligning with the Wisdom of Nature”

Beech Tree in Autumn Sun – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…We know the vital need for a new story, but are we seeking to change life without honoring the archetypal forces at work—the gods and goddesses that still reign in the depths of creation—without recognizing the primal world that is life’s inner source? If a story is not born from the inner world it will lack the power to effect any real change. It will speak just to our conscious selves, the surface layer of our being, rather than engaging us from the depths. The stories of the past, the myths that shaped humanity, spoke to our individual and collective soul with the numinous and transformative power that comes from deep within. How many men have been called to battle by the archetype of the warrior or the hero? How many churches have been built on the foundation of the myth of redemption? The power of the archetypal, mythic world belongs to the riverbeds of life that shape humanity.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Autumn Morning, Yosemite – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

~ David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Sunrise in Huangshan Mountains, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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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

Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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