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And while I stood there
I saw more than I can tell,
and I understood more than I saw;
for I was seeing in a sacred manner
the shapes of things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being.
~ Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks
Mt. St. Helens and the Milky Way, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
I know that in our previous life we were trees, and even in this life we continue to be trees. Without trees, we cannot have people; therefore, trees and people inter-are. We are trees and air, bushes and clouds…
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hoh Rainforest – KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.
~ Charlene Spretnak
White Sands, NM – photo by Don Smith Photography, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Smith-Photography/371422548082, used with permission
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The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what the story of the trees” would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.”
~Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
Trees of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary
There is a common thread that connects us all, it helps us understand, communicate, grow and go forward in this life. Then there is the Golden Thread, the Thread that is woven into us by the breath and hand of Great Spirit. When we realize this Golden Thread of Spirit there is new Understanding, new Sight, and a new Communication, it is the recognition of the Soul Spirit in each of us. It wraps around and through our heart space, it takes us deeper into this Great Mystery, …we no longer see with the same eyes, or hear with the same ears, we no longer have to communicate with the same voice, …we Speak in silence, we See the soul, and we Hear the whisper of Spirit. Peace and Blessings to all Walkers, Kingdoms, and Creatures great and small.
~ redskyhawk
El Submarino, Los Escullos, Almeria – photo by Angel Usero
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
~William Alexander
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
We depend on nature not only for our physical survival.
We also need nature to show us the way home, the way
out of the prison of our minds. We got lost in doing,
thinking, remembering, anticipating; lost in a maze of
complexity and a world of problems.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sunset at Salt Creek Beach – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission
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We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complimentary and harmonious playing of the whole.
~ J. Allen Boone
Tahiti – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of the rest of the world and has an incredible power to heal ourselves and the world: in a certain sense we make the world as such, as we wish.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Shooting the Monsoon – photograph by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission
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The nomadic gatherer-hunters live in an entirely sacred world. Their spirituality reaches as far as all of their relations. They know the animals and plants that surround them and not only the ones of immediate importance. They speak with what we would call ‘inanimate objects,’ but they can speak the same language. They know how to see beyond themselves and are not limited to the human languages that we hold so dearly. Their existence is grounded in place, they wander freely, but they are always home, welcome and fearless.
~ Kevin Tucker
Eclipse of the Moon, Carnationa, WA – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
~ Yasutani Roshi
Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
~ Marguerite Young
Spring Flow – Chris Williams Exploration Photography, used with permission
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Much more than a simple ecology, ecosophy is a wisdom-spirituality of the earth. The new balance is not so much between man and Earth, but between matter and spirit, between spatio-temporality and consciousness. Ecosophy is not simply a science of the earth (ecology) and even wisdom on earth, but the wisdom of the earth itself that occurs when [humanity] knows how to listen with love.
~ Raimon Pannikar
Photo by Devadana Sanctuary
There is action to be taken in the outer world, but it must be action that comes from a reconnection with the sacred – otherwise we will just be reconstellating the patterns that have created this imbalance.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Milky Way, TAO Photography, used with permission
What does it mean to say that nature is personal? In the broadest sense, it means choosing a different paradigm from the Western idea of nature as machine It means holding the possibility that all things on Earth, even rocks and mountains, have their own will and intention.
~ Priscilla Stuckey
View From Blanchard Mountain, photo by Bob Stevens, North Sound Gallery – used with permission
