And if I am alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is here to keep me company.
~ Paulo Coelho
Starry Sky, Mars, and Saturn, Italian Alps – photo by Fabio Lamanna
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And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces…I am less important than I thought. I rejoice in that.
~ Wendell Berry
California Redwood Forest photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
…spirituality can give us an actual experience of the unity of all things. This experience, when nurtured as a constant practice, roots equality-consciousness, non-discrimination, non-violence and reverence for all people and the earth deep into our core.
~ Michael Edwards
Sunrise and Frost – photo by Alex_Ugalek, bigstockphoto.com
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Eagle Mesa at Sunset in Monument Valley – photo by makasanaphoto, bigstockphoto.com
But what thrilled me most was the fact that millions of meteors burn up every day as they enter our atmosphere. As a result, Earth receives ten tons of dust from outer space. Not only do we take in the world with each breath, we are inhaling the universe. We are made of stardust.
~Terry Tempest Williams
Milky Way Over Nepal – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Reality is woven from strange, “holistic” threads that aren’t located precisely in space or time. Tug on a dangling loose end from this fabric of reality, and the whole cloth twitches, instantly, throughout all space and time…The bottom line is that physical reality is connected in ways we’re just beginning to understand…When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves.
~ Dean Radin
Yangshuo Guilin, China – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com