Devadana Sanctuary
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…Whether you call the light in nature the Great Spirit or the Anima Mundi (the World Soul), it is the same – it is this living divine principle within creation. And I am convinced that we cannot solve the problems in the world, the ecological problems for example, without invoking this light, this magic, this wisdom, this knowledge – this PRESENCE within nature.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Cave in Heo Suwat Waterfall, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other…
~ Lynne McTaggart
Meteora Valley, Greece – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Raising the level of world consciousness is certainly the most important thing on the planet today, both for the survival of our race menaced by major challenges and especially for its improvement and breaking through to the higher state of consciousness which alone will enable us to establish the new world that includes all and excludes no one, which is the condition of our very survival as a race.
~ Pierre Pradervand
Yosemite Sunrise – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care.
~ Tara Brach
Plitvice Lakes National Park – photo by Oleksandr Naumendo, bigstockphoto.com
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Giant Sequoias – photo from bigstockphoto.com
…our collective transformation is borne of the remembrance of the inalienable truth that We Are All One; that each of us is an intrinsically unique expression of the One Creative Life Force; that we are all sourced from Source, and that Source—the Creative Force of Life, the Great Spirit—is a force of Love.
~ From Wake Up World FB Page, by guest writer Little Bear
Monument Valley, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com
What the idea of “thinking like a planet”…implies is that we are the planet. We are Gaia. If anything, this is what an understanding of ecology (both physical and spiritual) teaches us: that we cannot separate ourselves from the web of interconnectedness and interdependency that makes up the web of planetary life. We simply cannot affect one part of our world without affecting in some manner all other parts, including ourselves. Some of these consequences, as we are learning, can be disastrous. It is in our best interests to learn to think in terms of the whole system of which we are one part.
~ David Spangler
Roussillon, Provence, France – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Making time for solitude in wild nature helps us to have the largest conversation we are capable of having with the world. Communion with wild nature helps us embody our ultimate place and act wisely in recognition of our kinship with all life.
~ David Christian Wahl
Cape Royal, Grand Canyon North Rim – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
For each act of hatred that makes the news, a dozen of acts of goodness go unseen in our world.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
Underwater Cave – photo by Rich Carey, bigstockphoto.com
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Pines and Red Rocks, Bryce National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Waking up from the trance of separateness creates powerful new possibilities for the future. It is in this spirit of hope that we can come together to nurture a different dream for the world, one that, “brings forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling socially just human presence on this planet.”
~ Alexis Lassman
Midnight Sun, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Redeveloping the capacity for heart-centered cognition can help each of us reclaim personal perception of the living and sacred intelligence within the world, within each particular thing.
~ Stephen Buhner
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
~ Fritjov Capra
Deep Montana Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com
There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth. Our love and admiration for the Earth has the power to unite us and remove all boundaries, separation and discrimination. We need to re-establish true communication—true communion—with ourselves, with the Earth, and with one another as children of the same mother.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Angel Falls – photo by Alice Nerr, bigstockphoto.com
Subtle activism can be understood as a set of practices that allow us to connect, in the depths of our being, with our love for the world and our longing for it to reflect the highest potentials of human nature…[It] represents the intention to cultivate this force as a transformative presence in the world…underlying and informing all [our] actions is a shift in consciousness involving a deeper awareness of our essential interconnectedness.
~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”
Zion National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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