If awareness is not the exclusive attribute of humankind—if, indeed, every aspect of the perceivable world is felt to be at least potentially alive, awake and aware — then there is an obvious need, in any human community, for individuals who are particularly adept at communicating with these other shapes of sensitivity and sentience. The shamans are precisely those persons who are especially sensitive and susceptible to the expressive calls, gestures and signs of the wider, more-than-human field of beings, and who are able to reply in kind.
~ David Abram
Scottish Red Deer, Glenfinnan, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Reykjanesta Cliffs at Sunset, Iceland – photo by rasica, bigstockphoto.com
We talk often about the ripple effects of kind acts. Science is now confirming that kindness is actually contagious because seeing others perform acts of kindness elicits a natural neurochemical response within us which makes us act more altruistically towards others. This phenomenon is called “moral elevation”. Even watching acts of kindness can improve pathways in our brain!
~ KindSpring.org
European Barberry Blossoms – photo by ArgenLent, bigstockphoto. com
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
~ Jacob Nordby
Red Deer in Foggy Forest – photo by Veneratio, bigstockphoto.com
Never underestimate the power of goodness within you. This power of goodness can change or heal your life and the lives of others around you.
~ Anthony Douglas Williams
Apple Blossoms – photo by SeNata, 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
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Lijang Yunnan Province, China – photo by 157295779, bigstockphoto.com
Nature is alive and talking to us. This is not a metaphor.
~ Terence McKenna
Portrait of a Jaguar – photo by Anolis, bigstockphoto.com
The planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories give life to all the beings, seen and unseen, that inhabit a living Earth.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
~ Nelson Mandela
Balsam Root, Patterson Mountain, Port Washington – photo by Marina Poushkina, bigstockphoto.com
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk
Grand Canyon Sunset, North Rim – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth is a sacred site.All people are the chosen people,and the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other, and for the earth, for everything relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness, may we radiate the light of loveand kindness that all may live in unity and in peace.
~ Radha Sahar
Garden of the Gods, CO – photo by RKimbrow, bigstockphoto.com
A wish for all in these challenging times…
ON WAKING
I give thanks for arriving
Safely in a new dawn,
For the gift of eyes
To see the world,
The gift of mind
To feel at home
In my life.
The waves of possibility
Breaking on the shore of dawn,
The harvest of the past
That awaits my hunger,
And all the furtherings
This new day will bring.
~ John O’Donohue
Sunrise, Abisko, Sweden – photo by Pitiya, 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 a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. Look for them in this present 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
Zhangjiajie Forest Park, China – photo by cubrick, bigstockphoto.com
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
~ John Wesley
Kigela – Sausage Tree – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa – photo by pyty, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot do the work of transforming the world unless we are in interdependent relationships—the work is too vast and complex for any one of us. …Let’s reach toward each other.
~ Akaya Winwood
Early Spring, Central Park, New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
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