Our personal attempts to live humanely in this world are never wasted. Choosing to cultivate love rather than anger just might be what it takes to save the planet from extinction.
~ Pema Chödrön
Sunset Sky – photo by Fahroni, bigstockphoto.com
Devadana Sanctuary
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We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Night Sky with Stars above Monument Valley, AZ – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
The way we see the world affects the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
~ David Suzuki
Waterfall, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia – photo by TK Kurikawa, bigstockphoto.com
Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard.
~ Morgan Harper Nichols
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
~ Mary Oliver
Saguaro Cactus and the Milky Way, AZ – photo by raphoto, bigstockphoto.com
The mountains are my bones,
The rivers are my veins.
The forests are my thoughts,
And the stars are my dreams.
The ocean is my heart,
The pounding is my pulse.
The songs of the earth
Write the music of my soul.
~ Pachamama Alliance
Mount Rainier National Park, WA – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything. It lives here, profoundly, at One Square Inch in the Hoh Rain Forest. It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.
~ Gordon Hempton
Sun’s Rays in the Deep Forest – photo by Virrange Images, bigstockphoto.com
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
~ Ravi Shankar
Autumn in Golden Beech Trees – photo by Smileus, bigstockphoto.com
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure…The material and the spiritual live together here.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Mushrooms and Moss – photo by danil_1972, bigstockphoto.com
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
~ Rumi
Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach, CA – photo by Jen Silacci
Maybe at times we need to crumble to the ground at the magnificence of it all, awestruck at the bounty laid out before us. To fall apart. To fail. To get back up. To be humbled again. To start over. To be a beginner. An amateur at the ways of love. To make this journey with our kindred travelers and the sun, moon, and stars. And to realize together how little we know in the face of it all.
~ Matt Licata
Milky Way, Stars, and Trees, Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Plants, it turns out, really are highly conscious, intelligent and yes, they do have a brain. It’s just that no one ever looked in the right place.
Depth analysis of plant consciousness since the turn of the (new) millennium is finding that their brain capacity is much larger than previously supposed, that their neural systems are highly developed—in many instances as much as that of humans, and that they make and utilize neurotransmitters identical to our own. It is beginning to seem that plants are highly intelligent, feeling beings—perhaps as much or even more so than humans in some instances. (They can even perform sophisticated mathematical computations and make future plans based on extrapolations of current conditions. The mayapple, for instance, plans its growth two years in advance based on weather patterns.)
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Forest at Dawn – photo by Labunskiy K. bigstockphoto.com
If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.
~ Rumi
Iceland Sunset – photo by rasica, bigstockphoto.com
Modern peoples…have mainly forgotten that we live in relationship as brothers and sisters with all the beings and forces of the natural world. Our scientific redefinitions of the “unseen” as the “unreal” have caused us to forget that we are all luminous strands in a giant web of belonging.
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada, “Lessons in Courage”
Elf Garden, Iceland, July 2013 – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Integrity is remembering that as individuals we are indivisible from the whole process in which we are participating — the integral evolution of life and consciousness. Integrity is about embracing the paradox that while most of us live our lives in a state of consciousness that separates subject and objects, self and world, even humanity and nature, there is a deeper ground of being and becoming — a quantum-entangled, implicate order of fundamental interconnectedness and co-creative reciprocity. We are individual nodes of consciousness.
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
Lotus – photo by Martha Paradis
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