Plants and mushrooms have intelligence and they want us to take care of the environment. They want to communicate that to us in a way we can understand.
~ Paul Stamets
Amanita Muscaria – photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission
Devadana Sanctuary
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A friend of Devadana Sanctuary, Terra, wanted us to share these photos of her encounter with the invisible realms in Central Park. She felt a strong call to sit next to a rock out-cropping, feeling the presence of someone who wanted to connect with her. As she sat, the following photos reveal that she received an energy transmission as well as connecting to the presence of the being from the invisible realms. The photos are by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir.
…we each need to be the person who loves and protects creation, who remembers its sacred nature. We need to bring this song of love into our hearts and hands. Through our love for the Earth we can honor the call to climate action that comes from all faiths and from the single voice that is within all of humanity. We are all part of one living being we call the Earth and it desperately needs our love and attention.
Sunbeams, photo from wix.com.
deep ecologists seek to emphasize that all living beings should be permitted, whenever possible, to purse their own evolutionary destinies. In contrast to anthropocentrism, in which things have value only insofar as they are useful for promoting human ends ecocentrism calls on people to respect individual beings and the ecosystem in which they arise.
~ M. C. Zimmerman
Dragonfly – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
If mind and matter can be understood as emerging out of a common order, then it will no loner be helpful to think of them both as distinct substances but rather as inseparable manifestations of the one undivided whole.
~ F. David Peat
Sunset Light on HIgh Peaks with Rising Moon, Pinnacles Natl Park, CA – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
If we can have a holistic view of soil, soul and society, if we can understand the interdependence of all living beings, and understand that all living creatures from trees to worms to humans depend on each other, then we can live in harmony with ourselves, with other people and with nature.
~ Satish Kumar
Mt. Jefferson from Vista Point – photo by Sandy’s KW Hiking Photos, used with permission
What I know in my bones is that I forgot to take time to remember what I know. The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Salt Creek Sunset, photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
~ Hermann Hesse
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Because all of life is a seamless whole, our only real suffering comes when we try to separate ourselves from it, imagining that a line can be drawn to divide your sadness from my happiness, your poverty from my wealth, your countrys war from my nations peace, natures destruction from my health. Every moment of every day we have the opportunity to erase a boundary – with a smile or kind word, with the details of an artistic, simple life, with a loving thought for Mother Earth.
~ Eknath Easwaran, The Compassionate Universe
Montana, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
It is our love and care for the Earth that is the most powerful force of healing and transformation. The cry of the Earth–as we recognize and feel her suffering–can also open our hearts. This suffering does not belong to another, but to the very core of our own being, where we are one with the Earth. This cry touches deeply within us, the soul of the world meeting our own soul, restoring the sacred ground of being, the interbeing we have with the Earth and all life.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Old Salmon Creek – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
Talking about the dynamics of synchronicity in nature, “ this collective order is hidden within chaotic and random motion so that radically new forms of behavior emerge at critical points, not so much from the interactions of many individuals, but through the cooperative action of the whole.”
~ F. David Peat
Kauai, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
In the Circle of Life, every being is no more, or less, than any other. We are all sisters and brothers. Life is shared with the bird, bear, insects, plants, mountains, clouds, stars, sun.
~ Steiner
Red-Tailed Hawk – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
we do not exist as separate beings but interpenetrate with all. We can draw on this imaginatively by seeing that the good done by any being, past or present, enters into this reality structure in which we exist, and constitutes an ever-present resource.
~ Joanna Macy
Photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
Then, as I grew tired, my gaze began to relax. I realized, irrevocably, there is no part of this world, including myself, that is not connected to every other part; the surface that we have taken to be the world is but the beginning.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, from “Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm”
Photo courtesy of Lars van de Goor Photography Art, used with permission
I have always felt the living presence of trees
the forest that calls to me as deeply as I breathe,
as though the woods were marrow of my bone
as though I myself were tree,
a breathing, reaching arc of the larger canopy
beside a brook bubbling to foam
like the one deep in these woods,
that calls, that whispers home.
~Michael S Glaser
Central Park Tree People, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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