Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
Devadana Sanctuary
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau
The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness into the universal. It is a feeling of unity. You dont love another. You are another. There is no fear because there is no separation. Stephen Levine
Joy is the realization of oneness, the oneness of our soul
“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean,
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together – Barry Lopez, author
“Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”