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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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We are a part of the sacred and it is a part of us—it belongs to our real nature. It is only the disconnection of our culture, its fundamental forgetfulness, that has isolated us within our own individual ego self, seemingly separate, struggling, unsupported by this basic energy and power within creation. Once we have learned to walk in a sacred manner, our feet touching the earth, we honor this connection that links our soul to the world soul, our breath to the breath of the spirit, that reveals our individual story as a part of the Earth’s story.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Mountaintop Tree at Evening Time – photo by Sanja22, bigstockphoto.com

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It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.

~ Francis Lucille

Flowering Cherry Tree – photo by Saharosa, bigstockphoto.com

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How you love means more than you know. When you reach out into the world in love, you create both a sign and a reality. You let others see what spiritual love can be. You offer a living alternative that others can make their own. Love is more than a sentiment: it is the heartbeat of a lifetime.

~ Steven Charleston

Orchids and Zen Basalt Stones – photo by a_lisa bigstockphoto.com

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The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

~ Alma Luz Villanueva

Sunrise, Yosemite National Park – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com

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What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

~ David Abram

Tropical Glass Frog, Amazon Rain Forest – photo by kikkerdirk, bigstockphoto.com

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When we walk into a forest, we’re not walking into a place that is full of separate interacting individuals…We’re walking into a living network, a place where every creature exists only through relationships with others…Every leaf on a tree has hundreds of species of bacteria and fungi living within its leaves. Without those other species, the leaf cannot function; it gets overrun by pathogens…What is true for a tree is also true for an individual human. Our bodies are made of dozens and dozens of interacting species—not just human cells, but bacterial and fungal cells and viruses and microbial components and so forth, and without the interconnections among all those members of the community, our bodies don’t function.

~ David George Haskell

Living Network of Life – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com

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Love is the light in which we see each thing in its true origin, nature, and destiny. If we could look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitation, possibility, and depth.

~ John O’Donohue

African Savanna Sunset – photo by Oskanov, bigstockphoto.com

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when the world
goes mad
be wildly kind
to everyone
everyone
everyone
everyone
~ you can’t control
much
but you control how
you treat others
in these breaking news
heartbreaking times
when nothing feels
certain
let your raw kindness
be a certainty
allow your compassion
to become a North Star
stamped up in
the sky for
others to follow
back home

~ John Roedel

Cala Lilies – photo by Carmen Sorvillo, bigstockphoto.com

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In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Swallowtail Butterfly in Tropical Forest – photo by Jag_cz, bigstockphoto.com

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We must have the courage to live with paradox. The strength to hold the tension of not knowing the answers and the willingness to listen to our inner wisdom and the inner wisdom of the planet which begs for change.

~ Maureen Murdock

Winter Forest – photo by jenyateua, bigstockphoto.com

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