Devadana Sanctuary
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope.
~ Wendell Berry
Huyen Khong Cave Shrine, Vietnam – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Trees are connected below the ground by mycorrhizal fungi, which live symbiotically with the roots of the trees. Both the trees and the fungi need each other to survive. But that’s not all. Because the fungi essentially connect the roots of one tree to another, the trees can use the fungi to pass nutrients to one another. So, for example, in winter when aspens are weaker, nearby conifers were found to pass additional nutrients to the aspens to keep them healthy. Similarly, older, more-established trees pass nutrients through the fungi to young seedlings which need to grow larger toward the sun’s light in order to survive. The largest, oldest trees in the forest serve as the hub because they possess and produce large amounts of resources, and their massive roots spread out in all directions.
~ Jocelyn Mercado
Snow in Woods – photo from bigstockphoto.com
In becoming aware of the spiritual dimension of reality, the shamanic practitioner knows and sees the sacred in everything and experiences the direct knowledge that everything comes from the same divine source—that everything is the Source.
~ Claude Poncelet
Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Snow in Yosemite – photo by Jairo Rene Leiva, bigstockphoto.com
The shamanic dimension of psyche is a primordial creature made of fur and feathers, seedpods and stardust—an unruly being who participates with the wild depths of the universe, howls with the invisible and visible Others, dances with numinous and cosmic forces. The shamanic dimension of psyche circles and beds down, waiting, so near, just beyond the gate of our ordinary minds.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Raven in Snowstorm, Poland – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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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”
Purakaunui Falls, New Zealand – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and visible, and learn the lessons of both worlds.
~Paolo Coelho
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir – used with permission
In an information-based universe, none of us ever takes the journey…alone. We all are part of the enfolding collective consciousness of humanity that consists of the combined awareness, experience, and wisdom of every human being who ever lived, including both positive and negative elements of human consciousness.
~ Nancy Napier, “Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, 2nd Edition”
Sunset in Borneo – photo from bigstockphoto.com
I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family or one’s nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival, it is the foundation for world peace.
~ H. H. the Dalai Lama
Hoodoos in Snow, Bryce Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com
To truly care for the Earth community…we must learn to sense or intuit the soul of the Earth, the underlying pattern of nature expressed through an astounding diversity of forms and species.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with–everyone blooms.
~ Marion Woodman
Iguazu Falls, Argentina – photo by Michal Kniti, bigstockphoto.com
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, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo from bigstockphoto.com
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, Durdle Door Arch, Dorset, England – photo from bigstockphoto.com
One of the most important things we can do as people who live on this planet is to return our hearts and minds back to the land so that we can learn to listen again to what the land has to say. Such a practice doesn’t always make sense in a modern, technological society that grabs onto quick solutions, but truly, when we listen intently to the land, unpredictable insights begin to emerge and we remember the ancient truth that psyche is not only that which lives inside of us humans, but extends to all things: rock, river, and tree. The entire cosmos is alive and we are simply members in her vast community. If we all lived this to the fullest, imagine what the world would look like today.
~ Betsy Perluss
Roblas Butte, Superstition Wilderness, AZ – photo by Anton Foltin, bigstockphoto.com
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