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Kindness is like snow
it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Waterfall, Karkonosze Mountains, Poland – photo by Pav-Pro-Photography Ltd, bigstockphoto.com
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We are not here on Earth to be alone, but to be a part of a living community, a web of life in which all is sacred. Like the cells of our body, all of life is in constant communication, as science is just beginning to understand. No bird sings in isolation, no bud breaks open alone. And the most central note that is present in life is its sacred nature, something we need to each rediscover and honor anew. Today’s world may still at times make us feel lonely, but we can then remember what every animal, every insect, every plant knows and only we have forgotten: the living sacred whole.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
American Bison, Yellowstone National Park – photo by Sue Smith, bigstockphoto.com
Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in our world. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in the darkness. Light your candle with their flame. And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world. Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.
~ L.R. Knost
Monument Valley Rainbow, Navajo Nation – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com
… sacredness is inherent in the very essence of life and the multiple patterns of its arising. Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.
~ Eleonor O’Hanlon
Full Moon Reflecting on Ocean – photo by sonnydaez, bigstockphoto.com (in honor of the full moon last night…)
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the Universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe.
~ Alan Watts
Llanos de Cortez Waterfall, Costa Rica – photo by billberryphotography, bigstockphoto.com
Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and value.
~ Thomas Berry
Cardinal in Snowstorm – photo by biegles56, bigstockphoto.com
The Sierra Nevada is our sacred home. Her geological composition, with her water sources, mountain ranges, minerals, and species, make up a living body which informs the way in which we relate to Nature herself.
~ Mama Izquierdo Torres, Wiwa Elder
Yosemite Valley, Southern Portion of the Sierra Nevada – photo by isogood, bigstockphoto.com
We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and to learn what is good for it. We must learn to cooperate in its processes, and to yield to its limits.
But even more important, we must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.
~ Wendell Berry
Coyote in Snowy Mountains of Montana – photo by actionsports, bigstockphoto.com
Every morning when you wake up, try to cultivate beneficial thoughts before you start your day. You might think, for example, “That my body, speech, and mind can be used in a more compassionate way, so that I can serve others.”
That’s how I usually do it. This makes life more meaningful.
~ Dalai Lama
Gentle Beauty – photo by Kazitafahnizneer, bigstockphoto.com
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time…
Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Winter Woodland, Ukraine – photo byb Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com
AT THE END OF THE YEAR
As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them…
Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.
We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.
~ John O’Donohue
Ocean Sunrise – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
If we are to become partners with the Earth, living our shared journey, we have to once again speak the same language, listen with our senses attuned not just to the physical world but also to its inner dimension.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Yosemite Valley in Winter – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
Sunset in Winter Forest – photo by Yanika, bigstockphoto.com
Be aware of the miracles and wonders which are happening all around you all the time. Life is never dull; it is full to overflowing with the most thrilling things.
~ Eileen Caddy
The Magic of Northern Lights, Sweden – photo by contas, bigstockphoto.com
Inside each of us there is a noble heart. This heart is the source of our finest aspirations for ourselves and for the world. It fills us with the courage to act on our aspirations. Our nobility may be obscured at times, covered over with small thoughts or blocked by confused and confusing emotions. But a noble heart lies intact within each of us nonetheless, ready to open and be offered to the world.
~ The Karmapa
Lotus Blossoms – photoi by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com
