I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
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when the world
goes mad
be wildly kind
to everyone
everyone
everyone
everyone
~ you can’t control
much
but you control how
you treat others
in these breaking news
heartbreaking times
when nothing feels
certain
let your raw kindness
be a certainty
allow your compassion
to become a North Star
stamped up in
the sky for
others to follow
back home
~ John Roedel
Cala Lilies – photo by Carmen Sorvillo, bigstockphoto.com
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Swallowtail Butterfly in Tropical Forest – photo by Jag_cz, bigstockphoto.com
The difficult magic of animistic perception, the utter weirdness and dark wonder that lives in any deeply place-based relation to the earth, is the felt sense of being in contact with wakeful forms of sentience that are richly different from one’s own—the experience of interaction with intelligences that are radically other from one’s own human style of intelligence.
~ David Abram
Adult Male Waterbuck, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com
The air that wraps Earth is a single entity, the matrix that holds us all. It is a global commons from which we draw a crucial element of life, sharing as we do molecules that have been breathed in and out of every living thing that has ever breathed on Earth. Molecules that pass through us have passed through brontosaurs, neolithic hunters, Roman emperors, hummingbirds, snails.
~ David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Sky Blessings – photo by SkyLynx, bigstockphoto.com
May you recognize in your life the presence,
power, and light of your soul.
May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging
connects you intimately with the rhythm of
the universe.
May you have respect for your individuality
and difference.
May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
that you have a special destiny here,
that behind the façade of your life,
there is something beautiful and eternal happening.
~ John O’Donohue
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Lakota Instructions for Living (Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman)
Friend do it this way – that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.
~ Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
Garden of the Gods, Colorado – ph0oto by RKimbrow, bigstockphoto.com
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
~ Albert Einstein
Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), Chile – photo by Aliaksei Skreidzeleu, bigstockphoto.com
Please join me today, whoever you are, whatever you believe: join me in releasing love into the world. Love as mercy, love as peace, love as forgiveness, love as healing: join me in sharing love in every way that you can. And when you do, join me in believing it will make a difference. Love always makes a difference. Please join me in extending that love as far as your heart can reach.
~ Steven Charleston
Sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo by prochasson, bigstockphoto.com