Dear respected Mother, I see the whole Cosmos in you, and you in me. Although you are the mother of all species, as humans, we are capable of conversing intimately with you, capable of seeing you and understanding you. We know that you want us to live in such a way that in each moment of our daily lives we can produce the energies of Mindfulness, Peace, Solidity, and Love. We vow to obey your Wish and respond to your love. We have the conviction that if we keep producing these wholesome energies, we will be able to help reduce suffering on Earth, especially the suffering caused by war, hunger, and illness. We will learn to appreciate and enjoy our own presence and the presence of the Cosmos. With these wholesome energies we can help reduce the number of natural disasters like floods, storms, earthquakes and tsunamis.~T h i c h N h a t H a n h, Intimate Conversation with Mother Earth

[1] He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
[2] The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Astronaut John Glenn, whose pictures of earth from space were shared with the world said: “If you could see how much we share in this one world together, you would come back wanting to work for the benefit of everyone.”

‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.’~Mohandas Gandhi

‎”As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another….”
1 Peter 4:10

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~Mother Teresa

‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.’
~Mohandas Gandhi

“Is there anything that you want? Is there anything I can do? Just call on me, and I will send it along with love, from me to you.”
~ The Beatles.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~ Jim Rohn

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~ Muhammad Ali

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others. ~ Sue Pattom Thoele

Today, like every other day,
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study and
begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and
kiss the ground.

~Sufi mystic – Jelaluddin Rumi – 13th century~

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“CHILDREN” (by Kahlil Gibran)
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“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

~ Kahlil Gibran

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
~Seneca (5 BC – 65 AD)

“In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death].”
Bhagavad Gita

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“A single effort even for a single minute would bear fruit in time”

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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. ~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
~Francis of Assisi

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‘An action which is done with disinterestedness, not motivated by personal gain, and which is surrendered unto the Lord, will purify the mind and lead us to Liberation.’

~Ramana Maharshi

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‘Whatever you see happening in the waking state happens only to the knower, and since the knower is unreal, nothing in fact ever happens.’

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Unless one realizes the Self, the feeling ‘I am doing’ will never vanish.

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Unless one realizes the Self, the feeling ‘I am doing’ will never vanish.
~Ramana Maharishi

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Don’t bother. What is destined as work to be done by you in this life will be done by you, whether you like it or not.

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Action dedicated to God and done without desire purifies the mind. It aids liberation.

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The highest service is that, in which there is no sense of service, no sense of giving, no sense of doing – only a communication of love.

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If one enquires ‘Who is the doer?’ And enters the Heart, the doership idea will end, triple karma is destroyed. This indeed is liberation.

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By loving me he comes to know me truly; then he knows my glory and enters into my boundless being. All his acts are performed in my service, and through my
grace he wins eternal life.
-Bhagavad Gita 18:55-56

when I think of myself as a body, I am your servant; when I think of myself as an individual soul, I am part of you; but when I realize I am atman, you and I become one.
~ SHRI HANUMAN.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
~Mohandas Gandhi

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
~Rabindranath Tagore

“Love does not rest content with merely loving, but flows out in acts of service.”
- Swami Ramdas

Your work is to discover your work – and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
~Buddha

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
~St. Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~St. Francis of Assisi

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~Henry J Kaiser

The service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.
~Tagore

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.

So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.

The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.
~Kabir

“Man cannot really help the world. God alone does that -
He who has created the sun and the moon, who has put love
for their children in parents’ hearts, endowed noble souls
with compassion, and holy men and devotees with divine love.
The man who works for others, without any selfish motive,
really does good to himself.”
~ Ramakrishna

Do not entertain the sense of doership in doing good, as well as for bad deeds, be entirely prideless and egoless in all things. and thus your spiritual progress will be rapid.
~ Shirdi Sai Baba

‘…. the best prayer is a wordless prayer. Absolutely no words. Nothing. Just expanding into the wide expanse around you and beyond the earth to the universe. Its giving. Just give. And just be quiet and merge…’Swami Shraddhananda

“If you ever lie down and look up at the sky when there is no moon, but all the stars are around. Then what do you feel? It is that feeling.”Swami Shraddhananda on wordless prayer

My God, I pray better to You by breathing.I pray better to You by walking than by talking.”Thomas Merton,Dialogues with Silence.

“Silence is the first language of God; all else is a poor translation.”Thomas Merton

up there is prayer without words,surrounded by spirits of caring”~ Harold Littlebird Old Man For His People by Harold Littlebird

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” Swami Sivananda quotes

[1]‘When you pray,’ it has been wisely said by an Orthodox writer in Finland, ‘you yourself must be silent. . . . You yourself must be silent; let the prayer speak.’ To achieve silence: this is of all things the hardest and the most decisive in the art of prayer. Silence is not merely negative — a pause between words, a temporary cessation of speech — but, properly understood, it is highly positive: an attitude of attentive alertness, of vigilance, and above all of listening. The hesychast, the person who has attained hesychia, inner stillness or silence, is par excellence the one who listens. He listens to the voice of prayer in his own heart, and he understands that this voice is not his own but that of Another speaking within him.

[2]the path of inner prayer is exactly indicated in St John the Baptist’s words about the Messiah: ‘He must increase, but I must decrease’(John 3:30). It is in this sense that to pray is to be silent. ‘You yourself must be silent; let the prayer speak’ — more precisely, let God speak. True inner prayer is to stop talking and to listen to the wordless voice of God within our heart; it is to cease doing things on our own, and to enter into the action of God.

[3] To pray is to stand before God, to enter into an immediate and personal relationship with him; it is to know at every level of our being, from the instinctive to the intellectual, from the sub-to the supra-conscious, that we are in God and he is in us.~Bishop Kallistos-Ware

“We must move beyond the level of mental prayer: talking to God, thinking
about God, asking God for our needs. We must go to the depths, to where the
spirit of Jesus himself is praying in our hearts, in the deep silence of his union
with our Father in the Holy Spirit.”Laurence Freeman, OSB, Christian Meditation, Your Daily Practice

“Meditation, sitting in silence, is a prayer of faith. You totally let go of being in charge, which is different from what most prayer is about, because as long as we use words, we are in control. Most of us as Christians have been trained that prayer is talking to God. We feel the responsibility to do something, to be active when we pray, but in meditation, you enter it with the idea that you will let the Spirit transform you. You don’t talk, you listen.” – Sister Barbara Hazzard

He said: “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord,for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind,so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence—and then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here Elijah?” —I Kings: 19:11-13

“Move beyond words into wordless contemplation. Prayer in its higher form meant not simply moving beyond words; it meant the ‘stripping away of thoughts.” By Christopher A. Hall Worshiping with the Church Fathers

“In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” Isaiah 30:15
Thus the beginning of the spiritual journey makes use of the cataphatic path of seeing God in the good things of his good creation and in vocal prayer, but the end of this journey is to come into deep union with God through the more advanced apophatic path of finding God in renunciation of the unnecessary pleasures of this world and in wordless mystical prayer.~Fr. Steven Scherrer
Once one has gone a certain way, seeing God in all things, in the good things of his creation, to go farther, it is the apophatic, ascetical-mystical path—the path of renunciation and silence, the path of silent mystical prayer—which will take us to the top of the mountain. ~Fr. Steven Scherrer

We also need to hold in our memory the good things, the gifts that God has given us; we need to be attentive to the positive signs that come from God, and remember these. Therefore, we are speaking about a kind of prayer that the Christian tradition calls “mental prayer.” We are more familiar with vocal prayer, and naturally the mind and heart must also be present in this prayer, but today we are speaking about a meditation that does not involve words, but that is rather a making contact of our mind with the heart of God.

And here Mary is a true model. The Evangelist Luke repeats numerous times that Mary, for her part, “kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.” She keeps them; she does not forget. She is attentive to all that the Lord has said and done to her, and she ponders; that is, she makes contact with diverse things — she dwells deeply upon them in her heart.Pope Benedict XV, Aug. 17 catechesis at his papal residence in Castel Gandolfo.

So how has God wired you for listening? Does a sunset leave you breathless? The still, small voice is speaking—can you hear it? Does the swell of an anthem bring tears to your eyes? The still, small voice is speaking—can you hear it? Does the cry of a child in need call to you? The still, small voice is speaking—can you hear it? Linda Douty.

“Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism!Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward silence.”Richard Foster

A bare impersonal hush is now my mind,
A world of sight clear and inimitable,
A volume of silence by a Godhead signed,
A greatness pure, virgin of will.

Once on its pages Ignorance could write
In a scribble of intellect the blind guess of Time
And cast gleam-messages of ephemeral light,
A food for souls that wander on Nature’s rim.

But now I listen to a greater Word
Born from the mute unseen omniscient Ray:
The Voice that only Silence’s ear has heard
Leaps missioned from an eternal glory of Day.

All turns from a wideness and unbroken peace
To a tumult of joy in a sea of wide release.
~Sri Aurobindo The Word of The Silence

truth is too simple for words
before thought gets tangled up in nouns and
verbs
there is a wordless sound
a deep breathless sigh
of overwhelming relief
to find the end of fiction
in this ordinary
yet extraordinary moment
when words are recognized
as words
and truth is recognized
as everything else~Nirmala

In meditation, or deep wordless prayer, the mind can grow so still that not only do all thoughts cease, but even the subtle movements of awareness grow still. And then, like that glacial mountaintop, the world comes into such peaceful clarity. The strange thing is that in that cool, aloof state, a bubbling warmth and sense of life begins to rise and permeate the body and you grow giddy, wanting to smile or even laugh out loud. You expect such stillness to be frozen, almost lifeless, but you discover a blissful vitality and warmth instead.~Ivan Granger

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.”

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time!”

“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.

“Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

“The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

Hopi elder
Hopi Nation
Oraibi, Arizona

The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
The Elders,Oraibi, Arizona,Hopi Nation

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together ‹ they say on an island which is now beneath the water ‹ and He said to the human beings, “I’m going to send you to four directions and over time I’m going to change you to four colors, but I’m going to give you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about.”

North American Indian Prophecies Talk
Given by Lee Brown 1986 Continental Indigenous Council
Tanana Valley Fairgrounds Fairbanks, Alaska

But first, let us join hands and pray.
Starleaf, SHINNECOCK

When we are linked by the power of prayer, we, as it were hold each
other’s hand as we walk side by side along a slippery path; and thus
by the bounteous disposition of charity, it comes about that the
harder each one leans on the other, the more firmly we are riveted
together in brotherly love.
(St Gregory the Great, `Wisdom of the Saints’)

To come together and Pray with ONE MIND, ONE HEART, ONE FOCUS OF PURPOSE. The more we pray in community, in our groups, the better it is for all. I hope we can be connected through the ceremonies and rituals. It is been asked, to everybody. Be together like the fingers of the hand.
~Grandfather Vidal

Which brings me to re-emphasize the need for a concentrated FOCUS on a specific NOW, the NOW when we will all be merging our higher selves in generating the Light, and when we will offer our gratitude to our Mother.
~Swami Shraddhananda for The Gaia Minute

The present efforts are insufficient at this level of existence (m
ortal/material level). MASS MOVEMENT involving few thousand people who are praying
SIMULTANEOUSLY (at the same time in this space-time continuum dimension) is what is required to channelize the healing force. At present, these efforts are getting “scattered” because on non-simultaneous occurrences.

2. To explain why we need this SIMULTANEOUS effort, may I give an example please. Basically the process is very roughly similar to that of focusing a light beam. To get a TIGHT FOCUS, we need simultaneous prayers, the more the number, the greater is the power.
~Swami Shraddhananda for The Gaia Minute

An hourly wave that takes place on opposite sides of the globe simultaneously, every hour.
~Swami Shraddhananda for The Gaia Minute

Evolving our consciousness is not something we do only for ourselves – it is something we also do for others…for all others, and for the earth. Because we open up and let our body and mind feel the ties with others and with nature, we change ourselves, and change others around us. When a sufficient number of people pray or meditate together, or find another path to evolve their consciousness, other people are affected as well. More sick people heal, divorce and suicide rates drop, crime and violence diminish. When many people open up, a powerful force develops – a leap of consciousness takes place…
Ervin Laszlo

Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it.. every leaf,..the animals, love the plants, love everything.
Dostoyevsky

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
John Lennon

[1] When you meditate with others you can be of real help to them, and they can be of real help to you
[2]If both of you are meditating together, your aspiration and even your very presence will inspire and lift up that person.
[3] If ten persons meditate together and they are all in a very high state of consciousness, then it is like ten persons on one side in a tug-of-war against ignorance. Since ignorance is only one person, then naturally it will lose the tug-of-war. If you are meditating at home alone and are fighting against ignorance all by yourself, then you may soon become exhausted and give up. But if you can meditate with others, it becomes much easier.
[4]If twenty persons are sitting together, they have to feel that they are only one vessel. They are not individuals; they have become one vessel, and they are one in their receptivity. But each one has to feel that it is his obligation and responsibility to do his part. You cannot feel, “Oh, since we are all one, let him meditate for me.”
Sri Chinmoy

If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out. . . . For us to achieve results, our enlightenment has to be collective.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

When all strengths and forces are aligned into a single thrust a tremendous amount of power can be developed.
~L. Ron Hubbard

For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:20

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity.
Julie Harris

Where two or more human beings joined together for a common cause, the helpers and the Grandfathers will show up to help.
Vickie Downey

We shape our self
to fit this world

and by the world
are shaped again.

The visible
and the invisible

working together
in common cause,

to produce
the miraculous.

I am thinking of the way
the intangible air

passed at speed
round a shaped wing

easily
holds our weight.

So may we, in this life
trust

to those elements
we have yet to see

or imagine,
and look for the true

shape of our own self,
by forming it well

to the great
intangibles about us.
-David Whyte, The House of Belonging

I say, clap hands and let’s come together in this meeting ground,
I say, clap hands and let’s deal with each other with love
~Maya Angelou,Million Man March Poem

The love of God, unutterable and perfect,
flows into a pure soul the way that light
rushes into a transparent object.
The more love that it finds, the more it gives
itself; so that, as we grow clear and open,
the more complete the joy of heaven is.
And the more souls who resonate together,
the greater the intensity of their love,
and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.

~Dante Alighieri The love of God, unutterable and perfect

The Imaginal Cell Story

The caterpillar’s new cells are called ‘imaginal cells.’
They are so totally different from the caterpillar cells
that his immune system thinks they are enemies… and gobbles them up.

But these new imaginal cells continue to appear. More and more of them!
Pretty soon, the caterpillar’s immune system
cannot destroy them fast enough.
More and more of the imaginal cells survive.
And then an amazing thing happens!

The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together
into friendly little groups.
They all resonate together at the same frequency,
passing information from one to another.
Then, after awhile, another amazing thing happens!

The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together!
A long string of clumping and clustering imaginal cells,
all resonating at the same frequency,
all passing information from one to another there inside the chrysalis.

Then at some point,
the entire long string of imaginal cells
suddenly realizes all together
that it is something different from the caterpillar.
Something new! Something wonderful!
…and in that realization
is the shout of the birth of the butterfly!

Since the butterfly now “knows” that it is a butterfly,
the little tiny imaginal cells
no longer have to do all those things individual cells must do.
Now they are part of a multi-celled organism—
A FAMILY who can share the work.

Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job—
There is something for everyone to do.
And everyone is important.
And each cell begins to do just that very thing it is most drawn to do.
And every other cell encourages it to do just that.

A great way to organize a butterfly!”

*Adapted Version of Nori Huddle’s story from her book, Butterfly

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains
~Li Po

O current of power permeating all in the heights upon the earth and in all deeps:you bind and gather all people together
~Hildegard of Bingen

My spirit and yours blend together whether we are near one another or far away
~Hafiz

Unite our intentions,
let our hearts be inseparable.
Our minds are as one mind,
as we, to truly know one another,
become one.
~ Cara’carya

“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe.
All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies
are about in this garden in various ways ,
each has his own uniqueness and beauty.
Their presence and variety give me great delight.
…Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.”
~Sri Ananandamayi Ma

There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.
From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
- Sandra Day O’Connor

Sam’gacchadhvam’
sam’vadadhvam’
sam’ vo mana’m'si ja’nata’m,
Deva’bha’gam’
yatha’pu’rve
sam’ja’na’na’ upa’sate.

Sama’nii va a’ku’tih
sama’na’ hrdaya’nivah,
Sama’namastu vo mano
yatha’ vah susaha’sati.

(Let us move together
let us sing together,
let us come to know our minds together,
let us share like the sages of the past,
so that all people may enjoy the universe.

Unite our intentions,
let our hearts be inseparable.
Our minds are as one mind,
as we, to truly know one another,
become one.)

Rig Veda

Individual commitment to a group effort:that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

We have spent many lifetimes not able to recognize your presence as the Pure Land, as the Kingdom of God, as the most wondrous home that we have. We have run after a distant Promised Land, in heaven or in the future. This has caused us and you much suffering. Tonight as we touch the Earth, we let go and offer you and our ancestors our true presence. We have arrived. You are our home, our only home.
..
You have been calling to us, and some of us have heard your pain. You have been asking us for many lifetimes whether you can count on us. Tonight, with palms joined and with one heart, we say “yes, Mother, you can count on us.” We shall practice for you and for all our ancestors so that joy, peace and harmony will become possible again. Please accept our offerings of incense, flowers, fruit, tea, and our love. Yes Mother, we will be faithful to you.~ dharmaputra,New Year Prayer to Mother Earth
and all Our Ancestors, 2012

As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life – all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.
Henry Beston

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Johannes Kepler

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Unknown

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

[1] This rainy evening the wind is restless.
I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
[2] Thou raisest thy waves vainly to follow thy lover. O sea, thou lonely bride of the storm.
[3] God’s great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
[4] This world is the world of wild storms kept tame with the music of beauty.
[5] The storm is like the cry of some god in pain whose love the earth refuses.
[6] Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
[7]The storm of the last night has crowned this morning with golden peace.
[8]The raindrops kissed the earth and whispered,–”We are thy homesick children, mother, come back to thee from the heaven.”
[9]Find your beauty, my heart, from the world’s movement, like the boat that has the grace of the wind and the water.
[10]Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
[11] The poet wind is out over the sea and the forest to seek his own voice.

~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabir

Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality.
Henry David Thoreau

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of natures varied forms.
George Washington Carver

Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Ernest Dimnet

Honor the sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor the Elders.
Honor all with whom we
share the Earth:-
Four-leggeds, two-leggeds,
winged ones,
Swimmers, crawlers,
plant and rock people.
Walk in balance and beauty.
Native American Elder

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