Life is a gift that is given and will be taken. How we choose to spend our time here is our gift to life. It is our way of saying “thank you life” for the gift.
~ Imuetinyan Ugiagbe
Sunset, Snowy Mountain – photo by Pung Pung – bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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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
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
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
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Wood Stork, Everglades National Park – photo by photogallet1976,bigstockphoto.com
All around us, life bursts forth with miracles—a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere…
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunset, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
…every act we make, every word we speak, every thought we think is not only affected by the other elements in the vast web of being in which all things take part, but also has results so far-reaching that we cannot see or imagine them.
~ Joanna Macy
Yulong River. Guilin, China – photo by Jason YU, bigstockphoto.com
Your family is all of humanity, all the animals, all beings on earth. Include them all in your heart. Live with gratitude. What the times ask is a change of consciousness—a shift from the fearful, separate consciousness, the consciousness of us versus them, to the consciousness of connection and interdependence.
~ Jack Kornfield
Full Moon, Wilderness, and A Wolf – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com
Grateful eyes look at each thing as if they had never seen it before and caress it as if they would never see it again.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
~ Chief Dan George
Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, AZ – photo by tobkatrina, bigstockphoto.com
When our mind is not partnering with our heart, it often favors our ego’s choices in decisions, more than supporting the highest outcome for all concerned.
~ Doc Childre
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
We are all connected with the deep ecology of the universe and each of us has the ability to extend our consciousness far beyond the range of our physical senses.
~ Duane Elgin
Tree and Starry Night – photo by Narathip, bigstockphoto.com
You may consider yourself an individual but, as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.
~ Bruce Lipton
Stars – Hubble – photo by NASA
All living things are individual instruments through which the Mind of the Universe thinks, speaks and acts. We are all interrelated in a common accord, a common purpose, and a common good. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
~ J. Allen Boone
Snow Monkeys, Onsen Hot Springs, Nagano, Japan – photo by BlueOrange Studio, bigstockphoto.com
When we think in terms of relationships, we realise that we need to develop good relationships with the other persons in our ecosystem—prosperous, mutually beneficial relationships. A relational worldview makes us aware of our own interconnected and interdependent relationship with the world around us. So, even if we don’t believe that the tree in our garden is a person, or the river in our village, or the sky above our heads, we can still behave as if they are—our actions can be informed by a relational ecocentric perspective, rather than a purely anthropocentric one.
~Jack Hunter
Trees and Waterfall, Yosemite National Park – photo by alpenart, bigtockphoto.com
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