All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.
Thomas Berry. www.azquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
An individual has not started living until he[she] can rise above the narrow confines of his/[her] individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther Kind Jr. www.brainyquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
Frank Herbert, Dune. www.goodreads.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Contemplation, understood in the light of a hologram universe, is not a special gift. It is simply seeing from the perspective of oneness… It can indeed be practiced, and over time, with sincerity and persistence, it becomes an abiding state of consciousness. At times this unitive seeing may sweep you up in rapt adoration; at other times it simply deposits you powerfully and nakedly in the present moment. Either form is an expression of the same underlying consciousness. It is this consciousness itself that is the attained state of contemplation and it is neither infused nor acquired, because it was never absent – only unrecognized.
Cynthia Bourgeault. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening. https://markvotava.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Never forget that you are not in this world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as sure as your body is metabolizing food.
Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life. www.goodreads.com