“Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that humans beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.” — Evo Morales
Author Archives: Espirational
A Simple Discipline: Honor Your Mother Earth
Many people, even people of faith, have a mistaken idea about our relationship to the earth. They seem to believe this planet and its resources are ours to do with as we wish. Some of us still understand that we were placed in the “garden” to be caretakers, not to plunder and pillage its resources. How can we forget that the earth is ourContinue reading “A Simple Discipline: Honor Your Mother Earth”
Thought for Today
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” — May Sarton
Thought for Today
“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of ComfortContinue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
“If you clean the floor with love, you have given the world an invisible painting.” – Osho
Thought for Today
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.” ~ Walter Anderson
Thought for Today
Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thought for Today
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thought for Today
“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)” — Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
The Morning Walk
People around here know it is not unusual to see me out walking – usually more than once a day. My afternoon walk up the hill to get the mail could be considered exercise but my morning walk is something very different. The morning walk is about connecting to Mother Earth and Father God. IContinue reading “The Morning Walk”
