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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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The “sacred” is not something primarily religious or even spiritual. It is not a quality we need to learn or to develop. It belongs to the primary nature of all that is.

The sacred can be found in any form: in every drop of dew on an early morning spider’s web, in the call of wildfowl at dusk. It speaks to us in a myriad of ways. In my own garden it is in the scent of honeysuckle and the hummingbird drinking nectar, or the chipmunk scurrying after the seeds fallen from the birdfeeder. It is also present in every prayer, every song of praise and thanksgiving. The remembrance of the sacred is like a central note within life. Without it something fundamental to our existence is missing. Our daily life lacks a basic nourishment, a depth of meaning.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Callanish Stones, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com 

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The true human can tune to the voice of the river and give it expression. The true human can tune to the voice of the wind and speak the words that the wind cannot speak without human tongue. The true human can blend with the essences of the forest, the spirits of the rain, the spirits of every creeping, crawling, living thing and can represent them fairly and evoke from them the best that they can be.

~ Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes

Ocelot in Brazilian Jungle at Night – photo by Photocech, bigstockphoto.com

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We all are responsible for our Mother Earth and we should not be shy and hold back from the caring. Accept it as our personal responsibility and care. They [all our earth-kin] are all our brothers and sisters. Let us accept that everything around us is our family and we are related. Let us accept that our caring must not only be in words but in action…You are not owners of anything. Mother Earth owns you and you look after her just the same way that you would look after your Mother here because they also have given you lots of other relatives who are not human, but you are still responsible for their welfare and wellbeing.

~ Uncle Bob Randall, Aboriginal Elder

Moose in Snowy Forest – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com

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As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. 

~ Terri Guillemets

Sunrise, Village of Tyuenovo, Bulgaria – photo by Flaviya85, bigstockphoto.com

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…a truly planetary perspective means we see ourselves first and foremost not just as members of the human family but as earthlings in interdependent relationship with all the human and nonhuman members of the Earth community.

~ David Nicol

Cardinal in Snow – photo by biegles56, bigstockphoto.com

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If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.

~ Vijali Hamilton

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Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Where you are is called Here.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger;
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers.
I have made this place around you,
And if you leave it
You may come back again
Saying…
“Here.”
No two trees are the same to raven
No two ranches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or branch
Does is lost on you,
Then you are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.

~ David Wagner

Path in the Forest – photo by Ms. Candy, bigstockphoto.com

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We are walking ecosystems with more non-human than human cells in and on the body we call self. Interbeing is not a concept, it describes the relational matrix of health in which we take our being and live our lives while co-creating the very process we emerged from.

~Daniel Christian Wahl

Big Kaverzinsky Falls, North Caucasus – photo by apogee_krd, bigstockphoto.com

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In the human spirit, as in the universe, nothing is higher or lower; everything has equal rights to a common center which manifests its hidden existence precisely through this harmonic relationship between every part and itself.

~ Goethe

Yosemite National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com

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