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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.
 
~ David Spangler
 
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We can use the practice of deep listening to go beyond what our ordinary ears can hear, reaching the divine voice that speaks of the loving feminine wisdom that connects us all. To be of ultimate service to the planet we must reconnect to the divine feminine that teaches us the power of change that comes from being, as opposed to doing.
 
~ Sandra Ingerman
 
Lake Cave, Western Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet. We envision humans as a positive, healing presence on Earth, creating more abundance on the planet than would be possible without them. Our mission is to serve as a catalyst for a revolution in the way humans relate to the natural world.
 
~ Penny Livingston
 
Mount Kilimanjaro Sunset, Amboseli, Africa – photo by Michal Bednarek, bigstockphoto.com

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We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it…
 
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
 
Tree on Angels Landing, Zion National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…evidence is accumulating across many levels, from the atomic to the human, that a field of consciousness pervades the universe and is mobilized by different living systems in ways that support and sustain their functioning.
 
~ Duane Elgin
 
Huay Mae Kamin Waterfall, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The way we are born and the way we die is the same whether we are kings, queens, spiritual leaders or beggars. This is why having a sense of the oneness of humanity is important. Wherever I go and whoever I talk to I try to promote this idea in an effort to break down barriers between us. Whenever I can I smile which mostly prompts others to smile in return, making us both happy.
 
~ H.H. the Dalai Lama
 
Papilio Pilumnus Butterfly – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself…Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with his entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within himself, drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness, open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness.
 
~ Richard Nelson
 
Misty Morning in the Forest, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Can we not also speak to these powers, and listen for their replies? Can we not cry out to the winds, whisper to the river and the deer, offer our tears to a tree, challenge the mountain with our questions? Outrageous as it may seem, such animistic (or participatory) modes of discourse are simply necessary, I believe, if we wish to really enact a respectful relation to these other beings, to remember the wild alterity of the waters, the winds, and the breathing land itself. If, finally, we wish to ensure an ethic of restraint in our human engagements with the more-than-human earth.
 
~ David Abrams, “Between the Body and the Breathing Earth”
 
Mountain River, Carpathians, Ukraine – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
 
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
Sunset, Koh Samul Island, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or to the disadvantage to anyone.
 
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
 
Yosemite Valley, CA -photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Since Active Hope doesn’t require our optimism, we can apply it even in areas where we feel hopeless. The guiding impetus is intention; we choose what we aim to bring about, act for, or express. Rather than weighing our chances and proceeding only when we feel hopeful, we focus on our intention and let it be our guide.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Forest Path – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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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
 
Antelope Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, a different vibration of chemical exhalation, a different polarity with the stars; call it what you like. But the spirit of a place is a great reality.
 
~ D. H. Lawrence
 
Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood National Park, CA – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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