A “letter” to Mother Earth, written by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Deep insights that seek to build a bridge between spirituality and science.
Bits and pieces about sustainability and spirituality.
"The Earth is tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished" Carl Sagan, 1980 Submit
"The Earth is tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished" Carl Sagan, 1980 Submit
May 11, 2012
Intimate conversations with Mother Earth
April 24, 2012
"It was getting towards evening and I had climbed over a wall and was standing on a piece of rough ground covered with heather, bracken and brambles, looking for blackberries — when suddenly I stood quite still and began to think deeply, as an indescribable peace, which I have since tried to describe as a ‘diamond moment of reality’, came flowing into (or indeed, waking up within) me, and I realized that all around me everything was lit with a kind of inner shining beauty — the rocks, bracken, bramble bushes, view, sky and even blackberries — and also myself…"
— From the account of an experience in nature when he was twelve, related by a man to the the Religious Experience Research Unit of Oxford, and quoted in The Common Experience by J.M. Cohen and J-F. Phipps. (via geopsych)
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April 24, 2012
"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation; human to human, but also human to other forms of life."
— Dalai Lama
(Source: vegenista, via lisawhitehare)
April 13, 2012
"For a Quaker, religion is not an external activity, concerning a special ‘holy’ part of the self. It is an openness to the world in the here and now with the whole of the self. If this is not simply a pious commonplace, it must take into account the whole of our humanity: our attitudes to other human beings in our most intimate as well as social and political relationships. It must also take account of our life in the world around us, the way we live, the way we treat animals and the environment. In short, to put it in traditional language, there is no part of ourselves and of our relationships where God is not present."
— Harvey Gillman, 1988 (Quaker Faith & Practice 20:20)
April 12, 2012
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit. When the astronauts—Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders—took their first photographic glimpses of Earth, Lovell exclaimed: “The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.”
This image of Earthrise endures as one of the most memorable space images of all time, inspiring the kind of awe that makes one lament the grim future of space exploration.
April 9, 2012
"The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body - has a spirit - is organic - and fluid to the influence of its spirit - and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me."
—
Thoreau
(via spiritualconnections)
April 7, 2012
April 7, 2012
Quaker Earthcare Witness
Is a network of Friends (Quakers) in North America and other like-minded people who are taking spirit-led action to address the ecological and social crises of the world from a spiritual perspective, emphasizing Quaker process and testimonies.
While QEW supports reforms in laws, technology, education, and institutions, its primary calling is to facilitate transformation of humans’ attitudes, values, identity, and worldview that underlie much of the environmental destruction going on in the world today.
April 5, 2012
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder"
― Gary Snyder"
— (via journalofanobody)
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April 5, 2012
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
— Khalil Gibran. Thank you, onestonedcrow, frenchtwist & billyjane)
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