We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Fam Island Area, Sea of Raja Ampat, Papua, New Guinea – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others—the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically—is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Autumn Gold – photo from bigstockphoto.com
One of the most important things we can do as people who live on this planet is to return our hearts and minds back to the land so that we can learn to listen again to what the land has to say. Such a practice doesn’t always make sense in a modern, technological society that grabs onto quick solutions, but truly, when we listen intently to the land, unpredictable insights begin to emerge and we remember the ancient truth that psyche is not only that which lives inside of us humans, but extends to all things: rock, river, and tree. The entire cosmos is alive and we are simply members in her vast community. If we all lived this to the fullest, imagine what the world would look like today.
~ Betsy Perluss
Autumn Morning, Yosemite National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Clearly, the protection of night, the preservation of darkness, is an important, life-giving dimension of human existence…But most of all, perhaps, darkness returns humanity to humans. It restores the sense of beauty that nourishes the human soul.
~ Sr. Joan Chittister
Milky Way over Nepal – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
There are many things to be grateful “for” but,
as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons
blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply,
I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.
~ Michael Mahoney
Lake Sunset – photo by Maren Winter, bigstockphoto.com
This is the Earth, healed again, growing green and blue. I want you to remember this exactly as it is, and then go and tell the people that if enough of us hold this image in their minds, we can heal the Earth and make it like it was a long time ago.
~ Rolling Thunder
Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park, Canada – photo by Carrie Cole, bigstockphoto.com
Conscious evolution as a worldview began to emerge in the latter half of the twentieth century because of scientific, social, and technological abilities that have given us the power to affect the evolution of life on Earth. Conscious evolution is a metadiscipline; the purpose of this metadiscipline is to learn how to be responsible for the ethical guidance of our evolution. It is a quest to understand the processes of developmental change, to identify inherent values for the purpose of learning how to cooperate with these
processes toward chosen and positive futures, both near term and long range.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Sunrise, Hunt’s Mesa, Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com
… matter itself tingles with consciousness at the deepest level. It’s there in the cells of every living creature, even in molecules and atoms.
~ From Goodreads website in a review of Christian de Quincey, “Radical Nature: The Soul of Nature”
Twin Wailua Waterfalls, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Maxim Kabb, bigstockphoto.com
Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with–everyone blooms.
~ Marion Woodman
Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon – photo by Maxim Kabb, 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
Huangshan Mountains, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com
We are all activists! Regenerative cultures are co-created by people who have become conscious of the way their participation activates certain possibilities, people who share a vision for a better world, collaborating to co-create a thriving future for all Life. Mindful practitioners and conscious activists live a simple question every day:
How can I be the change I want to see in the world?
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Yosemite National Park at Sunrise – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The ecosophical outlook is developed through an identification so deep that one’s own self is no longer adequately delimited by the personal ego or the organism. One experiences oneself to be a genuine part of all life… We are not outside the rest of nature and therefore cannot do with is as we please without changing ourselves…
~ Arne Naess
Grand Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com
If 96 percent of the known universe is invisible, then how much of ourselves is invisible and not detectable by material technologies? How far do we extend into the deep ecology of the invisible universe? Because we are an integral part of the universe, a large part of ourselves may well be connected with and operating in these invisible realms. The roots of our being reach deep.
~ Duane Elgin
Aurora Borealis – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I will simply call it “participatory consciousness,” or a heightened, world-reshaping awareness of participation with the visible and invisible; embodied and numinous; past, present and future beings, relationships and energies among whom we dwell. This mode contrasts with the Cartesian bifurcation – or mind/matter and subject/object separation – into which most Western people are indoctrinated. It is a more porous consciousness, a felt-sense of interpenetration and reciprocity; a psychic and somatic openness to the Others and to the mysterious terrain of imagination and dream; openness to what Joanna Macy calls “deep time” – or an awareness of connection with both ancient and future beings and events.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Iguazu Falls – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Heart-based living is a natural self-maintenance, self-transformational practice. It begins with each one of us, by befriending the intuitive guidance within our heart and bringing it forward into how we conduct our lives day-to-day.
~ Doc Childre
Autumn Morning in Yosemite National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com.
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