We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth-not just for ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
Full Moon over Yosemite – photo by RodPhotography, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
~ L.R. Knost
Thimbleberry Blooms in the Forest – photo by kvd design, bigstockphoto.com
We are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye. There is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. Ubuntu speaks about the fact that you can’t exist in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world… It is to say, ‘My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
Sandstone Rock, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa – pho
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible.
~ Rumi
Elf Garden, July 2013 – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Old Trees on the shore of Biogradsko Jezero Lake, Montenegro – photo by Alexander Nikiforov, bigstockphoto.com
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
~ Gregg Braden
Sejalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland with Rainbows – photo by Kotenko, bigstockphoto.com
Being “for” expands your heart. Being “against” contracts it. Feel this. The energy you radiate from your chest is a thousand times more powerful than the opinion you hold in your head…
~ Fred LaMotte
Water Lily – photo by silver-john, bigstockphoto.com
Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard.
~ Morgan Harper Nichols
Sunrise, Lake Minnewanka, Banff National Park, Canada – bigstockphoto.com
I want to redefine Darwinian theory. It is not the survival of the fittest. It’s the extension of generosity of surplus to other members in the ecological community to build biodiversity. So it’s not the individual that survives, it’s the community that cooperates that survives.
~ Paul Stamets
Russula Mushroom in Jungle, Costa Rica – phoito by Kevin Wells Photography, bigstockphoto.com
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Sunrise at Old Mans Cave Gorge – photo by Larry Knupp, bigstockphoto.com
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa
Sacred Connections… Flower, Bamboo, Candle, Stones – photo by a_lisa, bigstockphoto.com
She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.
~ Rudy Francisco
Indonesian Butterfly – photo by Andriyani Widyaninglyas, bigstockphoto.com
…we must remember that in oneness we are connected to all of life on this earth, joined together in a web of life. This means we must live from a place of honor and respect. We are part of nature, not separate from it.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Spires and Cliffs in Monument Valley – photo by TravellingLight, bigstockphoto.com
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Iguazu Falls – photo by saiko3p, bigstockphoto.com
Once we step outside of the illusion of our own separate self, a radically different picture emerges. Our true nature exists in a dimension of oneness. Unlike the ego, which always looks out for its own self-interest, the Self reflects a vision of unity, in which each individual part is nourished according to its real need. A glimpse of the Self gives us a sense of an interconnected oneness in which nothing is separate: everything is an expression of a oneness that is dynamically alive. Every person, every stone, is this oneness; everything is connected and interdependent. Our individual Self is the Universal Self
and it is all a living organism of light and love.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Preparing for Sunrise – photo by EdVal, bigstockphoto.com
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