In times of deep darkness, we not only need light — we need to be light for one another.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Magnolia Blossom in Early Spring – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
~ Desmond Tutu
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, Carmel, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Dramatic Sunrise – photo by Paanna, bigstockphoto.com
…nature teems with consciousness through and through. Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit, and therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred to its deepest roots.
~ Christian de Quincey
Hummingbird – photo by Allan Lokos
If we are to help heal the world we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.
~ Ram Dass
Muir Woods, CA – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we’re just planting a seed and we don’t know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It’s hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Hawaiian Sunset – photo by Indira Darst
The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north have dozens of words to describe its different arrivals. Or the creatures, with their thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their infallible sense of what their lives are meant to be…
~ Mary Oliver
Young Brown Bear in the Forest – photo by byrdyak, bigstockphoto.com
I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
…The more in the world that you encounter kindness…the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth – are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.
~ Stephen Fry
Costa Rican Orchids – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
~ Haruki Murakami
Storm, Mojave Desert – photo by Jessie Eastland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Sequoia National Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Hope is radical openness for surprise—for the unimaginable. If that is the attitude with which we look, listen, and open all our senses, we enter into a meaningful relationship with whatever Life offers us at a given moment.
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
Ocean Sunrise – photo by f9photos, bigstockphoto.com
Everything that is created comes from the inner worlds. The energy of life flows from the uncreated emptiness out of the planes of manifestation.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Elf Garden – Iceland, photo by Ragnhildur Johnsdottir
Between a human and a tree is the breath. We are each other’s air.
~ Margaret Bates
Central Park Tree Friend, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Accessing our natural heart intelligence can create an energetic field of unconditional love and harmonious interaction— helping humanity to realize we are one Earth, one yard, one people. Love is the one thing that can bring all this together coherently and eventually thrive.
~ Doc Childre
Lake Maligne, Canada – photo by Devadana Sanctuary