We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.
~Pema Chodron
Zion National Park – photo courtesy of Elie Axelroth, www.elieaxelroth.com
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We are not here on Earth to be alone, but to be a part of a living community, a web of life in which all is sacred. Like the cells of our body, all of life is in constant communication, as science is just beginning to understand. No bird sings in isolation, no bud breaks open alone. And the most central note that is present in life is its sacred nature, something we need to each rediscover and honor anew. We need to learn once again how to walk and breathe in a sacred universe, to feel this heartbeat of life. Hearing its presence speak to us, we feel this great bond of life that supports and nourishes us all. Today’s world may still at times make us feel lonely, but we can then remember what every animal, every insect, every plant knows — and only we have forgotten: the living sacred whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Russian Gulch, photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
All life is a circle. The atom is a circle, orbits are circles, the earth, moon, and sun are circles. The seasons are circles. The cycle of life is a circle: baby, youth, adult, elder. The sun gives life to the earth who feeds life to the trees whose seeds fall to the earth to grow new trees. We need to practice seeing the cycles that the Great Spirit gave us because this will help us more in our understanding of how things operate. We need to respect these cycles and live in harmony with them.
~ Rolling Thunder
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
Concerning matter, we have all been wrong. What we have called matter is really energy, whose vibration has been lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. There is only light and sound.
~ Albert Einstein
Light Shaft, Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Sunrise Light Paints The Tetons And Cottonwoods, Grand Teton National Park, WY – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
Everything in nature is alive and influences your thoughts whether you know it or not. Whos to say the rock does not hear your thoughts? Nor the river? Or, the mountain ranges? We all belong to this living world and there is nothing that does not belong.
~ Tony Ten Fingers, Oglala Lakota
Staircase, Olympic National Park – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees,
you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight,
and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it.
You appreciate it.
You see why it is the way it is.
You sort of understand that it didnt get enough light, and so it turned that way.
And you dont get all emotional about it.
You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that.
And you are constantly saying Youre too this, or Im too this.
That judging mind comes in.
And so I practice turning people into trees.
Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
~ Ram Dass
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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The communication of the world did not occur in the visible realm of Newton, but in the subatomic world of Werner Heisenberg. Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies. The brain perceived and made its own record of the world in pulsating waves. A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else. People are indivisible from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated entity.
~ Lynn McTaggart
Ruby Beach, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission.
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Have you allowed that familiar yet mysterious
being we call plant to teach you its secrets?
Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is?
How it is surrounded by a field of stillness?
The moment you become aware of a plant’s
emanation of stillness and peace,
that plant becomes your teacher.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Baker Creek Falls – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
Nature is not unfeeling matter; it is full of invisible forces with their own intelligence and deep knowing. We need to re-acknowledge the existence of the spiritual world within creation if we are even to begin the real work of bringing the world back into balance .
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.
~ Thomas Berry
Dogwood Above the Merced River, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything – people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we enter the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ‘ether’ – the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.
~ Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elder & Ajq’ij of the Eagle Clan
Scotland – photo by Mark Gray, used with permission