Every moment is unique, offering its own way to connect with what is deepest within us, to the wonder and mystery of being fully alive.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Rainforest Waterfall, Laos – photo by Casanowe, bigstockphoto.com
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At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Aurora Borealis and A Tree – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts,
her pockets full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before,
a stone on the riverbed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell,
as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom.
By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
~ Mary Oliver
Saguaro Cactus and Milky Way, Arizona Desert – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto.com
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. Too often we squander the invitations extended to us because our looking has become repetitive and blind. The mystery and beauty is all around us but we never manage to see it. When the imagination awakens, the inner world illuminates. We begin to glimpse things that no-one speaks about, that the outer world seems to ignore.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunset in Nepal, Himalayan Mountains – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com