At the beginning of your day, whenever that may be, take a moment to greet the day, acknowledging and thanking all the beings — visible and invisible — who will travel with you throughout this day.
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Engaging and Collaborating with Living Archetypes
How do you imagine your life would be affected if you were to begin to actively engage the presence and support of living Archetypes, embodiments of different qualities of being, expression and action in the world? For example, what do you imagine might happen if you were to attune to the Spirit of Affection—a living Archetype of the essence and qualities of affection expressed through words, actions, feelings—and allow it to express in and through you as you engage others? What if these living Archetypes were actually embodiments of a kind of consciousness that we might think of as invisible Presences with whom we can interact and collaborate to enhance our quality of life and activities?
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When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.
~ Timothy Ray Miller
Mt. Rainier, Starry Night – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
Blessings for a Troubled World
Sometimes, we feel powerless in a world that has so much suffering and distress, and the following can be a way to offer healing to the world around you from right where you are in this moment. It has to do with moving through your world offering the living presence of your heart to all you meet, including yourself. Here are some examples of possible intentions and blessings you can offer from your heart space as you move through your daily activities:
I choose love.
I am loving awareness. (From Ram Dass)
The Light in me recognizes the Light in you.
I affirm our kinship. (Offered to whatever life form you may encounter along the way.)
You are my kin. May you be well.
May you be free from suffering. (From Buddhist Lovingkindness practices.)
May you live in wholeness.
Environmentalists have been working to address ecological issues for many years by means of science and policy, law and economics. These approaches have had effect in terms of legislation but not necessarily in terms of behavioral change. We need to incorporate religion and spirituality, philosophy and history, literature and the arts. These disciplines show us how humans are moved by beauty, love, story, and symbols. Storytelling and symbolic consciousness bring us into emotional, intuitive, and embodied ways of relating to the earth.
~ Mary Evelyn Tucker
First Light, Yosemite Valley – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
this energy [of oneness] has an impersonal nature and a global dimension that require that we shift our focus away from our own individual inner journey and give ourself to the work of the whole it demands that we live it in all aspects of our ordinary, everyday existence.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Falls on Paradise Creek – photo by Robert Cameron, used with permission
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
Tahiti, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat each other matters to the health and well-being, perhaps even the survival, of us all as a species, not in some vague future, but in this very moment. Kindness is the natural response to recognizing inter-connectedness. And in that kindness is true wisdom.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Sunset of gold along Washington’s north coast, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
In the past, shamans, priests, and priestesses were the keepers of the sacred knowledge of life They helped people remember that all trees are divine and that all animals speak to those who listen.”
~ Ted Andrews, “Animal Speak”
Morning Alpineglow – Teton Peaks, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
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.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
All over the world, people are awakening to a new dream. Were re-imagining a civilization in the Age of Nature that honors the web of life, each other and future generations. Its a revolution from the heart of nature.
~ Kenny Ausubel
Montana – Photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Humanity is now being given the opportunity to relate directly and participate in a shift from a consciousness defined through separation and differentiation to a consciousness of oneness. This is the next step in our evolution, and it will influence every level of life on this planet.
~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Gorton Pull, photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth’s atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.
~ James Lovelock
Colchuck Lake, photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies
into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance
of cinnamon and fulfillment…
~ Mary Oliver
Seattle Japanese Garden, photo by Chris Williams Explorations Photography, used with permission
In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its own inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. Every being declares itself to the entire universe. Every being enters into communion with other beings.
In every phase of our imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional lives we are profoundly dependent on this larger context of the surrounding world.
~ Thomas Berry
Arches National Park, photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission
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