The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in mountains. And mountains disappear the closer you are to them. As Dogen wrote in the Shobogenzo: “They passed aeons living alone in the mountains and forests; only then did they unite with the Way and use mountains and rivers for words, raise the wind and rain for a tongue, and explain the great void.” Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence. —Joan Halifax

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are....

Beware of this situation... Too much PAST.. or too much FUTURE.. thus not enough PRESENCE...

"We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and the commonplace are one. To us [symbols] are part of nature, part of ourselves, even little insects like ants and grasshoppers. We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart, and we need no more than a hint to give us meaning." —John Fire Lame Deer, (died 1976) Miniconjou Lakota, Storyteller, rebel, medicine man

"Traditionally human consciousness has the ability to connect the inner and outer worlds. This has long been the role of shamans and poets, artists and mystics. These are the visionaries of the soul who have held this thread for humanity, who have been called to work in the depths and bring its numinous wonder closer to our collective consciousness. And now as the world is dying and the world is waiting to be reborn, it is calling to those who are awake to this inner dimension, who can make the connection between the worlds. As the psychologist, visionary and gnostic, Carl Jung said, “The world today hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

"Patterns are growing that link people together in new and diverse ways...it is these patterns of relationship that are so essential, that provide the simple answers to the complexity of the times. What we have yet to realize is that this is all a part of life recreating itself on the pattern of oneness. We see these changes with the eyes of individuality and fragmentation that focus on the individual parts. We are still caught in the complex images of decaying culture. The real picture is an emerging wholeness that is a life force in itself. Life is reconnecting itself in order to survive and evolve.... This life force has the urgency that is needed to survive and change at this time of crisis. It also has the power of oneness, and the simplicity of bringing people together. It is about sharing rather then possessiveness and isolation. It is the deep joy of knowing that we are ONE."

Spiritual ecology.....

That's t.... go for it.. be healed...

BEING IN TOUCH WITH HEALING ELEMENTS

"The blue sky, the flower, the river, the cloud, these things have a healing nature. If you allow yourself to be in touch with these healing elements, the wounds within your body and your mind will be healed. We should allow ourselves to be healed, and therefore, we should allow ourselves to be in the heart of life, which contains so many wonderful things, like the children, the flower, and so on... The seeds in our consciousness can function like anti-bodies. What is important is that you continue to plant new seeds, the kind of seeds that are both refreshing and healing. And if you just do that, by practicing mindful living so that you can be in touch with the flower, with the cypress tree, with the fresh air, with the beautiful eyes of the children, then these seeds will be planted in yourself, and they will naturally take care of the seeds of your suffering. You don't even have to touch them."

— Thich Nhat Hanh 

The world's largest solar plant officially opened this week in the California desert. It produces a gross total of 392 megawatts (MW) of solar power, enough electricity to provide 140,000 homes with clean energy and avoid 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equal to removing 72,000 vehicles off the road. But it's complicated. It uses lots of land—a staggering 5 square miles—and growing evidence shows that the intense heat surrounding the tower and mirror technology (reaches 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit) is killing birds. What's the solution?

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science." —Albert Einstein "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." —Niels Bohr

I walked with giants And talked with ancestors As I looked down the millennia At the branching and twisting of the Tree of life Immersed in Deep Time I contemplate My relatives, now extinct for aeons And those who teeter on the edge today I stand humbled Heart heavy with grief And ponder my place in the cosmos. —Andrew Jones

"The earth changes as our story about her changes..." "The Earth is not static as we image it to be....it is not finished being made. It is made by us living deeply into our own imaginal, social, and cultural potential. That's the deep story, the becoming of the Earth." —Orland Bishop.