Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but a part of it. Its health is our health.
~ Thomas Moore
Central Park, New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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Practice One
Ask for forgiveness as a representative of the human race—for all our harm to the Earth, its rapidly shrinking biodiversity and the cruelty and violence we do to each other. Act as a surrogate for the whole human race: this is a practice of representing universal responsibility.
Practice Two
From the same whole humanity perspective affirm the flowering of the conscience and consciousness to heal Earth and all its peoples. Let your heart open as a representative of all hearts opening across the planet.
We are holograms of the whole: let us pray as such.
~ James O’Dea
Earth – photo by Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC
How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Forest and Sunbeams – photo by lostbear, bigstockphoto.com
For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed as individuals, we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings.
~Angel Kyodo Williams
Lotus Blossom – photo by AnaFidalgo, bigstockphoto.com
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
~ Richard Rohr
Springbok Antelope, Kalakari Desert, South Africa – photo by EcoShot, bigstockphoto.com
To love.
To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch.
To try and understand.
To never look away.
And never, never, to forget another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
~ Arundhati Roy
Alaskan Meadow – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
I am only one
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not to refuse to do the something
that I can do.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Nuggets Point, Otago Coast, New Zealand – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
Gratefulness…is an overall orientation to life. When we wake up in the morning and feel grateful just for the blessing of being alive, we open our heart and senses to the gifts and opportunities of another day, a day that was never guaranteed. This approach to gratitude is more radical since it isn’t contingent on a transaction—on something good happening to us—but is rather a way of living.
~ Kristi Nelson
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
~ Aldous Huxley
Waterfalls, Plitvice National Park, Croatia – photo by twindesigner, bigstockphoto.com
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunlight on Ocean Waves – photo by Lynne Williamson, bigstockphoto.com
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to seeing them that we call them ordinary things.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Cerulean Geyser – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Late Season Lotus Blossoms – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
We cannot forget that our real power is not necessarily to change the world, but to make a world of change to the people we encounter every day.
~ Cory Booker
Shawnee National Forest, Illinois – photo by baluzek, bigstockphoto.com
It turns out that flowering plants did some extraordinary things once they evolved: they formed belowground links with nitrogen-fixing bacteria that essentially pumped lots of fertilizer into the soil, allowing ecosystems to become large and productive. Through their flowers and their fruit, they started to coevolve with insects, with beetles and moths and katydids and flies; and if you look at the evolutionary tree of most modern groups, and particularly the most diverse groups of insects today, they explode when flowering plants come along because of this reciprocal interaction between the insects and the plants themselves.
~ David G. Haskell
Lotus and Bees -photo by Angle DiBenedetto
You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Grand Canyon in Summer – photo by fotoping, bigstockphoto.com
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