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In times of turmoil and danger, gratitude helps to steady and ground us. It brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world.
~ Joanna Macy
Sunset, Yosemite Valley – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), Chile – photo by Aliaksei Skreidzeleu, bigstockphoto.com
Please join me today, whoever you are, whatever you believe: join me in releasing love into the world. Love as mercy, love as peace, love as forgiveness, love as healing: join me in sharing love in every way that you can. And when you do, join me in believing it will make a difference. Love always makes a difference. Please join me in extending that love as far as your heart can reach.
~ Steven Charleston
Sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
~ Howard Thurman
Swan in morning sunlight – photo by Flynt, bigstockphoto.com
Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Where you are is called Here.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger;
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers.
I have made this place around you,
And if you leave it
You may come back again
Saying…
“Here.”
No two trees are the same to raven
No two ranches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or branch
Does is lost on you,
Then you are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
~ David Wagner
Pine Forest in Winter – photo by Boguslavus, bigstockphoto.com
This brainless, single-celled organism [slime mold] may lack brains but compensates with a level of intelligence that continues to stun scientists across the globe. Despite its lack of neurons, it’s capable of complexities like remembering, making decisions, and recognizing itself. The slime mold also has a knack for geometry, as it swiftly mapped Tokyo’s rail system in just 26 hours — a task that took humans a hundred years! “This brainless goo has been known to beg for food, help out a friend, solve a maze better than Harvard grad students and even scheme coordinated escapes.” So, next time you think of intelligence, reconsider preconceived notions, because the slime mold is here to redefine it!
~ Daily Good Weekly Newsletter
Slime Mold,several fruiting bodies of Comatricha nigra – photo by alexis_orion, wikipedia.com
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
Arch Formation, Bryce Canyon – photo by D.G. Hayes, bigstockphoto.com
The belief that everything in the universe is part of the same fundamental whole exists throughout many cultures and philosophical, religious, spiritual, and scientific traditions, as captured by the phrase ‘all that is.’ The Nobel winner Erwin Schrodinger once observed that quantum physics is compatible with the notion that there is indeed a basic oneness of the universe. Therefore, despite it seeming as though the world is full of many divisions, many people throughout the course of human history and even today truly believe that individual things are part of some fundamental entity.
~ Scott Barry Kaufman
Sunset, Babson Island, Maine – photo by Cynthia Stroud
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically related to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all the atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Starry Sky and Baobab Trees – photo by Mikhail Dudarev, bigstockphoto.com
The way you alchemize a soulless world into a sacred world is by treating everyone as if they were sacred, until the sacred in them remembers.
~ Sarah Dunham Wilson
Sunset, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.
~ L R Knost
Rays of Sunrise in A Foggy Forest – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.
~ Martin Luther king
African Elephants – photo by Allan Lokos
Goddess alchemy is learning to see through this dimension into the next and welcome in what you are seeking. Healers, priestesses, and brujas of African descent have used magic for access to healing, protection, and joy since time began.
~ Abiola Abrams
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Let love always lead you to listen more deeply, understand more fully, connect more securely, forgive more freely, communicate more clearly, and respond more gently.
~ L.R. Knost
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Kindness is like snow; it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Winter Forest Magic – photo by Mihailo K, bigstockphoto.com
