“I hope you are blessed with
a heart like a wildflower.
Strong enough to rise again
after being trampled upon,
tough enough to weather the worst
of the summer storms,
and able to grow and flourish
even in the most broken places.”
~Nikita Gill
Image by NancyL
Be like the earth, humble and wise.
Be like the rain, pouring all your love
to every soul.
~Mesut Kurtis
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#earth
#water
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“What insights about our human psyches appear when we return to Earth, when we remember that we are related to everything that has ever existed, when we reinstall ourselves in a world of spring-summer-fall-winter, volcanoes, storms, surf, bison, mycelium, Moon, falcons, sand dunes, galaxies, and redwood groves?
What do we discover about ourselves when we consent again to being human animals — bipedal, omnivorous mammals with distinctive capacities for self-reflexive consciousness, dexterity, imagination, and speech?
In what ways will we choose to live when we fully remember the naturalness and ecological necessity of death?
Who will we see in the mirror when we face up to the present-day realities of human-caused mass extinction, ecosystem collapse, and climate destabilization?
And what mystery journey will unfold when we answer the alluring and dangerous summons now emanating from the human soul, from the dream of the Earth, and from an intelligent, evolving, ensouled Universe?”
~Bill Plotkin,
Animas Valley Institute
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Photo: High mountain meadow
by Nancy Lankston
“When we pay attention to Nature’s music,
we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”
~Hazrat Inayat Khan
Image: bighorn sheep
Wikimedia
The spirit of the valley never dies.
It is called the mysterious feminine.
Where the valley forks is the gateway
to all the mysteries of woman.
That place where the valley forks
is called the root of heaven and earth. . . .
We can never exhaust its strength.
~Chinese Tao te Ching
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Image: Quiet Storm
by NancyL
The lesson which life constantly repeats is to ‘look under your feet.’
You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
Do not despise your own place and hour.
Every place is under the stars.
Every place is the center of the world.’
~John Burroughs
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