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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~ Swami Sivananda
Cedar Creek, WA – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
~ Nagarjuna
Rock at the End of the Rainbow, North Carolina – photo by Jeff Burcher Photography, used with permission
…The Earth needs both physical and spiritual attention and awareness, our acts and prayers, our hands and hearts. Life is a self-sustaining organic whole of which we are a part, and once we reconnect with this whole we can find a different way to live–one that is not based upon a need for continual distraction and the illusions of material fulfillment, but rather a way to live that is sustaining for the whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
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The mountains, I become a part of it
The herbs, the fir tree, I become a part of it.
The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters,
I become a part of it.
The wilderness, the dew drops, the pollen
I become a part of it.
~ Navajo Chant
Photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
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
Artist Point – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
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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.
~ Hermann Hesse
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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This morning’s post is a little different from what we usually offer. The photograph will show why. As you look at the photo, pay particularly attention to the little green being on the left. Some people may say it’s a photo effect; others may recognize it as a “hello” from the nature realms. Here’s this morning’s quotation:
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
~ Neil Gaiman
In the woods of Pocantico Hills, NY – photo by Lili Berley, used with permission
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Our time is hungry in spirit. In some unnoticed way we have managed to inflict severe surgery on ourselves. We have separated soul from experience, become utterly taken up with the outside world and allowed the interior life to shrink. Like a stream disappears underground, there remains on the surface only the slightest trickle. When we devote no time to the inner life, we lose the habit of soul. We become accustomed to keeping things at surface level. The deeper questions about who we are and what we are here for visit us less and less. If we allow time for soul, we will come to sense its dark and luminous depth. If we fail to acquaint ourselves with soul, we will remain strangers in our own lives.
~ John O’Donohue
Takhlakh Lake, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
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Different gods dwell in different places, and different demons. Each place has its own dynamism, its own patterns of movement, and these patterns engage the senses and relate them in particular ways, instilling particular moods and modes of awareness, so that unlettered, oral people will rightly say that each place has its own mind, its own personality, its own intelligence.
~ David Abram
Sunset Light and Pines, Half Dome – Yosemite, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
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What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding.
~ Jim Robbins
Old Growth Douglas Fir – by KR Backwoods Photography – used with permission
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I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of rage because we have finally realized there is just one flesh we can wound.
~ Hafiz
Cumberland Falls, KY – photo by Fultz Fotos, used with permission
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There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth. Our love and admiration for the Earth has the power to unite us and remove all boundaries, separation and discrimination. We need to re-establish true communicationtrue communionwith ourselves, with the Earth, and with one another as children of the same mother.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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One of the most important contributions of the ecological movement is that it has made us conscious of the interdependence of all forms of life, the delicate web of creation Nor do we realize the degree to which our intention, our attitude, our individual participation can affect the life of the whole and the way the future will unfold.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Photo courtesy of Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission
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I didn’t know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only thing I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.
~ Sue Monk Kidd, “The Secret Life of Bees”
Sunset from the island of Naxos – photo by Martha Paradis
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I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars….I awaken everything to life.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Mt. Rainier National Park Sunrise – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
