It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
~ Rachel Carson
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness,
Courageous in thought,
Generous in love.
~ John O’Donohue
Giant Sequoia – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
We are a part of the sacred and it is a part of us—it belongs to our real nature. It is only the disconnection of our culture, its fundamental forgetfulness, that has isolated us within our own individual ego self, seemingly separate, struggling, unsupported by this basic energy and power within creation. Once we have learned to walk in a sacred manner, our feet touching the earth, we honor this connection that links our soul to the world soul, our breath to the breath of the spirit, that reveals our individual story as a part of the Earth’s story.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mountaintop Tree at Evening Time – photo by Sanja22, bigstockphoto.com
It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.
~ Francis Lucille
Flowering Cherry Tree – photo by Saharosa, bigstockphoto.com
How you love means more than you know. When you reach out into the world in love, you create both a sign and a reality. You let others see what spiritual love can be. You offer a living alternative that others can make their own. Love is more than a sentiment: it is the heartbeat of a lifetime.
~ Steven Charleston
Orchids and Zen Basalt Stones – photo by a_lisa bigstockphoto.com
The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.
~ Alma Luz Villanueva
Sunrise, Yosemite National Park – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
~ Arundhati Roy
Redwood National Park, CA – photo by pmphoto, bigstockphoto.com
Whenever you have a choice between being right or being kind, be kind. No exceptions. Don’t confuse kindness for weakness.
~ Kevin Kelly
Pink Lotus – photo by Dilok, bigstockphoto.com
The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Spiderweb with Frost – photo by Yintan, English Wikipedia
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Sunset, Siquijor, Philippines – photo by smithore, bigstockphoto.com
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.
~ David Abram
Tropical Glass Frog, Amazon Rain Forest – photo by kikkerdirk, bigstockphoto.com
When we walk into a forest, we’re not walking into a place that is full of separate interacting individuals…We’re walking into a living network, a place where every creature exists only through relationships with others…Every leaf on a tree has hundreds of species of bacteria and fungi living within its leaves. Without those other species, the leaf cannot function; it gets overrun by pathogens…What is true for a tree is also true for an individual human. Our bodies are made of dozens and dozens of interacting species—not just human cells, but bacterial and fungal cells and viruses and microbial components and so forth, and without the interconnections among all those members of the community, our bodies don’t function.
~ David George Haskell
Living Network of Life – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
Love is the light in which we see each thing in its true origin, nature, and destiny. If we could look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitation, possibility, and depth.
~ John O’Donohue
African Savanna Sunset – photo by Oskanov, bigstockphoto.com
I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
when the world
goes mad
be wildly kind
to everyone
everyone
everyone
everyone
~ you can’t control
much
but you control how
you treat others
in these breaking news
heartbreaking times
when nothing feels
certain
let your raw kindness
be a certainty
allow your compassion
to become a North Star
stamped up in
the sky for
others to follow
back home
~ John Roedel
Cala Lilies – photo by Carmen Sorvillo, bigstockphoto.com
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