Let love always lead you to listen more deeply, understand more fully, connect more securely, forgive more freely, communicate more clearly, and respond more gently.
~ L.R. Knost
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Devadana Sanctuary
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Kindness is like snow; it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Winter Forest Magic – photo by Mihailo K, bigstockphoto.com
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep!
~ Rumi
Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Everyone you meet in your life—even total strangers—is already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
~ Steve Pavlina
Sunset Light, El Matador State Beach, CA – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com
Can love, in its unaccountable weirdness, hope to overcome a culture of individualism built on denying all our millions of kinships and dependencies? That is our central drama now.
~ Richard Powers
Sunlight in Winter Forest at Sunset – photo by swkunst, bigstockphoto.com
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we will never hear.
~ Henry Beston
Majestic Red Deer Stag – photo by Voy, bigstockphoto.com
What the idea of “thinking like a planet”…implies is that we are the planet. We are Gaia. If anything, this is what an understanding of ecology (both physical and spiritual) teaches us: that we cannot separate ourselves from the web of interconnectedness and interdependency that makes up the web of planetary life. We simply cannot affect one part of our world without affecting in some manner all other parts, including ourselves. Some of these consequences, as we are learning, can be disastrous. It is in our best interests to learn to think in terms of the whole system of which we are one part.
~ David Spangler
Twin Wailua Waterfalls, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
According to Navajo tradition, a “sacred wind” blows through the universe and brings the capacity for awareness and communication with others. Our individual consciousness is simply a local part of this larger, animating wind or life force that moves through all of nature.
~ Duane Elgin
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sun Breaking Through – photo by underworld1, bigstockphoto.com
I think it’s a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn’t their life and our life. Nor your life and my life. That it’s just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes.
~ Kate Forster
Majestic Lion – photo by lucascpac, bigstockphoto.com
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ocean Sunrise – photo by TinasDreamworld, bigstockphoto.com
In a world that lives like a fist, mercy is no more than waking with your hands open.
~ Mark Nepo
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
For each act of hatred that makes the news, a dozen of acts of goodness go unseen in our world.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
African Sunset, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe – photo by Artush, bigstockphoto.com
We are each cells in the living body of the larger whole. Whatever is happening to us is both personal and part of the whole, just as every cell in our biological body is both unique and part of the body. Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve. Our personal crises are also births of ourselves as members of the larger body. We do not do this work for ourselves alone.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
The planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories give life to all the beings, seen and unseen, that inhabit a living Earth.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Winter Landscape – photo by jenyateua, bigstockphoto.com
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