One of the most effective tools we can add to our spiritual practice is watching, listening to or reading positive inspiration daily. Espirational is built upon this. I hope you use it in this way and find it helpful. So why is this important? First, to counteract the negative messages we are bombarded with daily. Don’tContinue reading “A Simple Discipline: Positive Inspiration”
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Thought for Today
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Earth’s crammed with heaven… But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” ~ Joseph Campbell ~
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~ Rachel Carson ~
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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin Luther ~
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“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
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“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
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
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
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