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Lastly we call on the beings of the future: All you who will come after us on this Earth, be with us now. All you who are waiting to be born in the ages to come, it is for your sakes too that we work to heal our world. We cannot picture your faces or say your names — you have none yet — but we feel the reality of your claim on life. It helps us to be faithful in the task that must be done, so that there will be for you, as there was for our ancestors: blue sky, fruitful land, clear waters.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Los Hevideros Coastline, Lanzarote Island, Spain – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We call also on the beings of the present: All you with whom we live and work on this endangered planet, all you with whom we share this brink of time, be with us now. Fellow humans and brothers and sisters of other species, help us open to our collective will and wisdom. Aloud and silently we say your names and picture your faces…
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
African Elephant, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Today’s quotation—and what we’ll offer for the next three days—is from “World as Lover, World as Self”, by Joanna Macy. It’s called, The Three Beings. We’ll post one of each of the three beings over the next three days:
 
We call first on the beings of the past: Be with us now, all you who have gone before. You, our ancestors and teachers, who walked and loved and faithfully tended this Earth, be present to us now so that we may carry on the legacy you bequeathed us. Aloud and silently in our hearts we say your names and see your faces.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The current state of the world evokes great anguish and despair for anyone paying attention, but this is especially true for those with mature hearts, who feel the world’s degradation all the more acutely. We must learn to behold and hold all this dying and loss, including our own, and still act to preserve and protect what we can.
 
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
 
Merced River and Yosemite Falls – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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In this information age awash with so many words it is easy to undervalue an instinctual knowledge that comes from within. But the sacred principles of life have never been written down: they belong to the heartbeat, to the rhythm of the breath and the flow of the blood. They are alive like the rain and the rivers, the waxing and waning of the moon. If we learn to listen we will discover that life, the Great Mother, is speaking to us, telling us what we need to know.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Sunset in the Maldives – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is action to be taken in the outer world, but it must be action that comes from a reconnection with the sacred — otherwise we will just be reconstellating the patterns that have created this imbalance.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Sunset, Arizona Desert – photo by Jeni Foto, bigstockphoto.com

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Ancient humans felt (and many indigenous people today feel) a burning responsibility to show their respect, honor, and gratitude to Nature, to the Universe, and to Mother Earth which gave them life. And so, they created rituals involving singing, dancing, lighting fires, and different types of prayer. These activities raised the vibration of the Earth and all life. Their actions, carried out with great love and gratitude in their hearts, reinforced and strengthened the forces of nature all around them. In turn, the Earth and the Universe protected and supported the humans, sharing with them the great abundance of existence.
 
~ Jocelyn Mercado
 
Glacier National Park, Montana – photo by Marty Nelson, bigstockphoto.com

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Among those who have been privileged to enter the untroubled sanctuary of nature, who has not been stirred, if only for a moment, by Earth’s fantastic and improbable expressions: serpentine canyons, blue pools in ancient lava, or the blossoming refuge of butterflies?
 
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
 
Yosemite National Park – photo by Gary Tognoni, bigstockphoto.com

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
 
~ Black Elk
 
Monument Valley – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com

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The verb icarar means to sing or whistle an icaro [medicine song] over a person, object or preparation to give it power; water over which an icaro has been sung or whistled and tobacco has been blown, for example is called agua icarada…
 
Anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna tells of how [mestizo shaman] Don Williams Vasquez deals with difficult childbirth, singing icaros [medicine songs] of slimy fish, demulcent and mucilaginous trees, the slippery boa, and the ray, which can give birth in any position. He sings these songs over a glass of water, which is given for the woman to drink.
 
~ Steve Beyer, Singing To The Plants
 
Waterfall Cascades, Krka National Park, Croatia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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[Some] followers of the deep ecology movement…have stressed that, for deep ecology, respect and care for Nature are not based on a code of ethics…They grow spontaneously out of realizing that our small ego self is embedded in a larger ecological self. We reach awareness of and ability to act from this larger self by means of extension of identification. What we identify with we care for because, if we love ourselves, we spontaneously love what we identify with.
 
~ A. R. Drengson
 
Monument Valley Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is a new story waiting to be born, waiting to redeem the planet and nourish our souls. It is a story of a oneness that includes the diversity of creation in a self-sustaining whole, a story that can bring back the magic within nature that is needed to heal our damaged planet. It is a story of co-operation rather than competition or conflict. And it includes the mystery of life as well as the understanding that science can give us. It is also a new story, arising from deep within the psyche of humanity and the world soul at this moment in our and its evolution. We are not the sole creators of this story, because it is the story of life evolving, recreating itself anew, but we are needed to midwife it into existence. As with all births it needs to come from the inner to the outer world.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

~ Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

Redwood Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…the sacred is not some special, separate category of existence. It is not to be captured and tamed with fixed verbal structures of dogma and belief, or confined in man-made buildings. For sacredness is inherent in the very essence of life and the multiple patterns of its arising. Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.

~ Eleanor O’Hanlon

Sunrise – Yosemite National Park, photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We cannot step outside life’s songs. This music made us; it is our nature…

Our ethic must therefore be one of belonging, an imperative made all the more urgent by the many ways that human actions are fraying, rewiring, and severing biological networks worldwide. To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is therefore to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.

~ David George Haskell, from The Songs of Trees: Stores from Nature’s Great Connectors

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