Since a living presence is felt to be in and through everything, all things are seen and experienced as related. Because everything is connected through the Great Spirit, everything deserves to be treated with respect.
~ Duane Elgin
Volcan Arenal, Costa Rica – photo by Kevin Wells Photography, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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About Liminal, “Thin”, and Sacred Places, Paul Devereux writes:
Such places, natural or monumental, are a way we can key into ancient perceptions and knowledge…many were venerated or located specifically at what were perceived as ‘thin’ and ‘liminal’ places—sites where ‘breaking through’ to otherworld dreams or altered mind states…were felt to be more easily accomplished than other places.
It is also possible to listen to ancient sacred sites: the sound the wind or nearby waters (rapids, waterfalls, springs) make at them the echoes at or around them, and, particularly, the way their acoustics respond to sounds made around or within them…We found that even the source area of the Stonehenge bluestones, around Carn Menyn in the Preseli Hills of South Wales, is a veritable soundscape, thanks to a preponderance of natural ringing rocks and lithophones.
Callanish Stones at Sunset, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
Lakota Instructions for Living
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
Timber Wolves – photo by Josef Pittner, bigstockphoto.com
This is what I have to say to you…
Live as if the earth exhales blessings in your direction,
As if the trees speak their deepest secrets
In your ear,
As if bird songs can lift you outside your
Ordinary state of mind and bring you into truth.
Be the creative juice flowing through the universe.
Be compassion in action and wholeness in motion.
Be silence and stillness, the ocean of love so
Palpable that not one cell of you disputes the truth
That you are love.
Be so open to your destiny that it
Unfurls like a banner in the sky, a sign saying,
“Live with gratitude, generosity, and grace.”
~ Danna Faulds
Sunset, El Matador State Beach, CA – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com
Participatory consciousness emerges in relationship with an animate world, an ensouled universe with both a past and an unfolding future. Rivers and mountains, galaxies and microbes are physical and psychic presences with their own stories and longings. I believe that Thomas Berry not only expressed participatory consciousness, but that he helped evoke it in others, and that this evocation was one of his finest gifts to Earth and to the human species.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Tropical Jungle – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com
We are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye. There is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. Ubuntu speaks about the fact that you can’t exist in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world… It is to say, ‘My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
~ Max Planck
Aurora Borealis, Lofoten Islands, Norway – photo by denbelitsky, 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
Sunset, Autumn Forest – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
What I know in my bones is that I forgot to take time to remember what I know. The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Cerro Torre Mountain, Argentiina – photo by Breev Sergey, bigstockphoto.com
Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and visible, and learn the lessons of both worlds.
~Paolo Coelho
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
The primal beauty of creation has been calling to me for many years, reminding me of a time when the world was younger and unspoiled, before the darkness and the troubles came. And now I need to return to this inner quality, this note that belongs to a deep love for the Earth. I need to live this link of love within my heart and soul and body, otherwise I will become stranded in the wasteland of our present increasingly toxic civilization.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Autumn Beech Tree Beauty – photo by Saharrr, bigstockphoto.com
We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.
~ Oren Lyons
Bryce Canyon National Park – photo by elleonzebon, bigstockphoto.com
Practice One
Ask for forgiveness as a representative of the human race—for all our harm to the Earth, its rapidly shrinking biodiversity and the cruelty and violence we do to each other. Act as a surrogate for the whole human race: this is a practice of representing universal responsibility.
Practice Two
From the same whole humanity perspective affirm the flowering of the conscience and consciousness to heal Earth and all its peoples. Let your heart open as a representative of all hearts opening across the planet.
We are holograms of the whole: let us pray as such.
~ James O’Dea
Twin Falls, Wailua Waterfalls, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by maximkabb, bigstockphoto.com
There’s a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it’s a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for.
~ Elaine St. James
Autumn Beauty – photo by silver john, bigstockphoto.com
We are all activists, activating one story or another through the power of our attention and the way we participate in our communities. We can choose to activate and embody the story of separation or the story of interbeing. We can choose what kind of world we want to bring forth together with the people we are in contact with. We can ask ourselves:
What am I choosing to activate through the power of my attention?
How does my participation contribute to the world I would want to live in?
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
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