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Portal to Multidimensional Living

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People with this personality trait are more hopeful and assess their lives more positively:

People who believe in the oneness of everything are happier, research finds. “Oneness” is the idea that everything in the world is interdependent and interconnected. This includes a sense of connectedness to other people, nature and life in general. Beliefs like these are incorporated in many religions. However, whether or not people have a specific faith, they are more satisfied with life when they have a sense of “oneness”.

~ Dr. Jeremy Dean, PsyBlog

Beautiful Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto

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Empirical studies have begun to demonstrate that many people in advanced industrial cultures resonate deeply with what could be called nature spirituality or nature religion. Some of these people view the world as full of spiritual intelligences with whom one can be in relationship…while others among them perceive the earth to be alive or even divine.

~ Bron Taylor

Redwood National Park, CA – photo by pmphoto, bigstockphoto.com

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I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.

~ Mary Oliver

Summer Lotus – photo by Peggy Braun

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When we pause, we are able to observe our interdependence – from a harvest taken from the soil by a stranger’s hands to the electrician who keeps the lights and Wi-Fi on. We are surrounded by the abundance we create for each other.

~ Joe Primo

Brooklyn Botanical Garden – photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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We live in a world where everything is connected. We can no longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it’s all about WE. 

~ Gregg Braden

Trees and Waterfall, Yosemite National Park – photo by alpenart, bigstockphoto.com 

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From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else—as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

~ Daniel Quinn

Farmer with Buffalo in the Wild – photo by sufpond somnam, bigstockphoto.com

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There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.

~ John O’Donohue

Lotus Flowers – photo by photirung, bigstockphoto.com

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