Let me bathe my soul in colours;
let me swallow the sunset
and drink the rainbow.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Sunset, Uvita, Costa Rica – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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We talk often about the ripple effects of kind acts. Science is now confirming that kindness is actually contagious because seeing others perform acts of kindness elicits a natural neurochemical response within us which makes us act more altruistically towards others. This phenomenon is called “moral elevation”. Even watching acts of kindness can improve pathways in our brain!
~ KindSpring.org
Hocking Hills State Park, OH – photo by Larry Knupp, bigstockphoto.com
The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness. Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen from Kitchen Table Wisdom
Pacific Ocean Coast, Costa Rica – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
…the indigenous world embraces a much larger and dynamically interactive reality than does our Western point of view. For many indigenous peoples, the fact that we live in a larger context than what our five senses can perceive is a given. That there are non-visible beings who interact with us on a daily basis is also a given. We in the West have become accustomed to thinking of these kinds of assumptions about reality as naïve or based on fantasy. For people who live in societies that take these wider realities as a given, they are anything but fantasies.
~ Nancy Napier, “Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, 2nd Edition”
Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by Dmitry Petrakov, bigstockphoto.com
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
~ Nikola Tesla
Rainbow at Sunrise over Paine River, Patagonia, Chile – photo from bigstockphoto.com
All things in the universe are one. They began as one. They may end as one. They are all made of the same basic matter/energy, and they interact with one another, constantly.
All things on earth are one: plants, animals, rocks, oceans and atmosphere. All living creatures had a common origin, all depend on each other, and shape and are shaped by non-living things. Life has radically altered the earth’s atmosphere, and molded many aspects of its geology. The Gaia system is an organic evolving whole embracing the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
~ Paul Harrison
Zion National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The practice of blessing is a simple way to develop a constantly centered awareness. It is also a tool for growing in universal love and avoiding judgment. When you bless all those you meet in their total happiness and true integrity, without the slightest concern for their appearance, expression, race, class, sex, or any other label, when you wish them the very best from your innermost being, it is impossible for your heart not to expand. From a narrow cubicle, it will become a temple without walls.
~ Pierre Pradervand, “The Gentle Art of Blessing”
Sunset, Costa Rica – photo by Tami Freed, bigstockphoto.com
A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live. “To be a bay” holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers. Because it could do otherwise—become a stream or an ocean or a waterfall, and there are verbs for that, too. To be a hill, to be a sandy beach, to be a Saturday, all are possible verbs in a world where everything is alive. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the language I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us…this is the grammar of animacy.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Maui, Hawaii – photo by Maxim Kabb, bigstockphoto.com
Many shamans say we are dreaming the wrong dream. We live with the illusion that we are separate from nature, separate from the spiritual realms, and that we are victims of our life and our environment…As we begin to change our consciousness and get in touch with the light inside us, we can effect great changes in our outer world. It is who we become that changes the world.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Cave Opening, Tham Phu Kham Cave, Van Bieng, Laos – photo by R. M. Nunes, bigstockphoto.com
In nature, a whole encloses the parts, and yet a larger whole encloses the whole enclosing the parts. By enlarging our field of view, what is thought of as a whole becomes, in fact, nothing more than one part of a larger whole.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Picture Lake – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”
“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes…
When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Rainbow Lorikeets, Indonesia – photo from 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
Park Avenue, Arches National Park – photo by Bill Perry, bigstockphoto.com
When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Yosemite Park in Autumn – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
~ Willis Harmon
Seljalandfoss Waterfall, Iceland – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity
May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and sky
Until all beings are freed from sorrow
And all are awakened.
~ Shantideva, Indian Buddhist sage 700 A.D. Prayer performed each morning by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Sunrise in Beech Forest After Rain – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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