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A caterpillar exists to eat. Its aim is to consume as much as possible. When there is nothing left to devour, evolution forces its isolation into becoming a chrysalis; within which it dissolves. In the breaking down of its old form, a new form begins to evolve into a butterfly. One morning, it breaks through …
A DEEP ECOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS Returning our awareness to a fully animate world. As our world appears to spin more and more out of balance, darkness and divisiveness growing, there is a pressing need for each of us to find a place of belonging. In my own journey and daily life I have been …
The World is Meant to be Celebrated Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. ~ Terry …
THE WINTER OF LISTENING No one but me by the fire, my hands burning red in the palms while the night wind carries everything away outside. All this petty worry while the great cloak of the sky grows dark and intense round every living thing. All this trying to know who we are and all …
Being more We must realise that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more. The Earth Charter Crafted by visionaries over twenty years ago, the Earth Charter (EC) is a document with sixteen principles, organised under four pillars, that seek to turn conscience into action: Respect and …
Perceptual Portal by Geneen Marie Haugen My antennae sweep and scan for reception, for a portal in perception, for a porous passage to a green breathing land where every presence offers itself to be known, where everything speaks, even galaxies, even stone, where interspecies lovetalk leaps like flashing fish and flying dragons in blue-pooled dream …
Every soul along this spiritual path goes through times of seeming darkness, when nothing much seems to be happening, when they are deep down in the valley and the mountains seem far, far away and almost unattainable. When you are at your lowest ebb, there is no need to go rushing around looking for something …
Turn on your light by Ben Okri The new era is already here: Here the new time begins anew. The new era happens every day, Every day is a new world, A new calendar. All great moments, all great eras, Are just every moment And every day writ large. Thousands of years of loving, failing, …
Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillars of light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment, the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating away overthe blue shoulders of the ponds,and every pond,no matter what itsname is, is nameless now.Every yeareverythingI have ever learned in my lifetimeleads back to this: the firesand the black river of …
Findhorn Fellow, Eco-philosopher and root teacher of The Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy, shares the twelve centuries old Shambhala Warrior Prophecy from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which is said to come true in our time. She invites you to listen to it as if it were about you.... "There comes a time when all life …