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…honoring spirit is accomplished as we quiet ourselves, illuminating the chatter of our doubting minds so that we can hear our heart pulsing with gratitude for the sacred gift that is life.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Sunset, Durdle Door Arch, Dorset, England – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Deep Ecology is rooted in a perception of reality that goes beyond the scientific framework to an intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation. When the concept of the human spirit is understood in this sense, its mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is truly spiritual.
~ Frtijof Capra
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.
~ David Spangler
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
We are all activists, activating one story or another through the power of our attention and the way we participate in our communities. We can choose to activate and embody the story of separation or the story of interbeing. We can choose what kind of world we want to bring forth together with the people we are in contact with. We can ask ourselves:
What am I choosing to activate through the power of my attention?
How does my participation contribute to the world I would want to live in?
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Dense Forest – photo from 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
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo from bigstockphoto.com
…I always find it strange that somehow we are very keen on working with ourselves as a sacred being but we do not realize that this sacred being that is ourselves is part of a much bigger sacred being that is the world, that is creation.
– Llewelly Vaughan-Lee
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – photo from bigstockphoto.com
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must all live together as one being.
~ Black Elk
Morning in Bryce Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com
I believe with all my heart that we can create cities and towns that are functioning like a forest. The blueprint is here. How to really thrive on this planet is all around us. So it is with humility that we need to actually ask nature, what should we be doing? And then, with equal humility, start to apply that. We are capable of so much more as a species and we will be so much happier as a species as a result.
~ Sue Swain, BioWise Solutions
Amazon Rainforest, Brazil – photo from bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth
Is a sacred site.
All people are the chosen people,
And the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other,
And for the earth, for everything
Relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness,
May we radiate the light of love
And kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Teach Only Love, Facebook
Yosemite Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com
