Our attention is responsive to the world, but the world is responsive to our attention.
~ Ian McGilhrist
Sunset, Monument Valley – photo by vent du sud, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.
~ Ganga White
Zion National Park, UT – photo by nrlphoto, bigstockphoto.com
We now have the opportunity to enter a new era that’s characterized by compassion, cooperation, and understanding that we are a part of nature.
~ John Perkins
Wildflowers in Glacier Bay, Alaska – phopto by snyfer, bigstockphoto.com
And now, as we stumble into this present landscape there is an even greater need for a deeper awareness, to be receptive to the spirits of the land and the beings of light who can help to guide us, who are always around despite our censorship of the unseen worlds. We are always part of a fully animate world, even if we have abandoned this knowing. Visions can sing to us, can show us the songlines to follow, the dreams we need. We can no longer afford to remain isolated within our rational consciousness.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Elf Garden, Iceland, Nature Spirit – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
The obvious choice, then, is to extend our notions of self-interest. For example, it would not occur to me to plead with you, “Don’t saw off your leg. That would be an act of violence.” It wouldn’t occur to me (or to you) because your leg is part of your body. Well, so are the trees in the Amazon rain basin. They are our external lungs. We are beginning to realize that the world is our body.
~ Joanna Macy, Greening of the Self
Amazon Jungle – photo by pxhildalgo, bigstockphoto.com
We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
~ Howard Zinn
Antelope Canyon, AZ – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
I have always thought of all creatures – all organisms, really – as relations. Whether wandering alone in deep wilderness or just leaning against a tree growing beside an urban sidewalk, I have had no difficulty feeling, as if in dreamtime, the roots of our relatedness – ecologically, yes, but also with an overlay of the sacred, the holy.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Angle Oak, 1500 year old oak, South Carolina – photo by Strobie, bigstockphoto.com
Practice guerrilla compassion — silently blessing people on-line at the bank, at the supermarket, in the cars next to us in traffic. Each blessing a tiny Sabbath, a secret sanctuary offered to a hurried and unsuspecting world.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
…nature teems with consciousness through and through. Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit, and therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred to its deepest roots.
~ Christian de Quincey
Foggy Sunrise with Red Deer Stag – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
Today you have a choice. You can choose between anger and love, division and unity, frustration and hope, selfishness and giving, turning away and showing up. Choose kindness and the choice is simple. It’s hard to regret being kind.
~ Rachel Maria Martin
Dahlia in Morning LIght – photo by Maglido Photography, bigstockphoto.com
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.
~ David Abram
Red Squirrel – photo by Alan Tunnicliffe bigstockphoto.com
All LIFE co-exists and co-creates as ONE. Mother Earth is our shared home, an evolving self-regenerating landscape that connects, nurtures and sustains all of us together. She recycles water and air, atoms and molecules. Sharing equally with ALL. Nature, our mother (who some call Gaia) is in truth more like a planetary cell or cosmic womb than a lonely rock spinning through space. ALL LIFE is Sacred. We are ONE Earth Community. Her life is our life..
~ Christopher Chase
Public Domain – Earth from Space – photo by NASA
In the Circle we are all equal. When in the Circle, no one is in front of you. No one is behind you. No one is above you. No one is below you. The Sacred Circle is designed to create unity. On this hoop there is a place for every species, every race, every tree, and every plant. It is this completeness of Life that must be respected in order to bring about health on this planet.
~ Dave Yakima Chief
Roughs Tailed Hummingbird – photo by wollertz, bigstockphoto.com
There is a world behind this world. The old cultures used to be in constant conversation with it through the sacred practices of storytelling, dreaming, ceremony, and song. They invited the Otherworld to visit them, to transmit its wisdom to them, so that they might be guided by an ancient momentum.
But as we succumbed to the spell of rationalism, the living bridge between the worlds fell into disrepair. As fewer made the journey back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, we forgot how to find the Otherworld.
At any given moment, we are either turning away from or coming into congruence with our kinship with mystery.
~ Toko-pa Turner
Callanish Stones at Sunset, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
~ Wangari Maathai
Sunset, Durdle Door Arch, Dorset England – photo by ianwool, bigstockphoto.com
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