We have forgotten who we are. We have alienated ourselves from the unfolding of the cosmos We have become estranged from the movements of the earth We have turned our backs on the cycles of life. We have forgotten who we are. We have sought only our own security We have exploited simply for…
Category: interconnectedness
A quote from Alan Watts on illusion (Maya)
Art: “Maya The Illusion” Painting by Antra Srivastava A separate self is merely conventional reality, in the same sense as lines of latitude and longitude and the measurements of the clock; which is why one of the means of maya, illusion, is measurement. Things are measurements; they are units of thought, like inches are measurements….
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Vision” by Elizabeth Reninger
Vision Go out after midnight with the sky trembling in snowy light — each star holding its filament of desire. Merge your mind with the spiraling galaxies — with a movement so large only Your heart can encompass it. Drop your prayer into the ear of God. Write a poem to help her hear…
A quote from Deepak Chopra about how we are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the…
A wisdom quote from Nikola Tesla on our interconectedness
Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, maybe, with the speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay, passing through processes…
A quote on a perspective from a blind person by Jacques Lusseyran from “And There Was Light”
Being blind I thought I should have to go out to meet things, but I found that they came to meet me instead… If my fingers pressed the roundness of an apple, I didn’t know whether I was touching the apple or the apple was touching me… As I became part of the apple, the…
A quote from Ramana Maharshi on “love thy neighbor as thyself”
It is every intelligent man’s experience …wrong-doing recoils on the doer sooner or later. Why is this so? Because the Self is one in all. When seeing others you are only seeing yourself in their shapes. ‘Love they neighbor as thyself’ means that you should love him because he is your Self. —Ramana Maharshi S….
Mystical Poems: “Say I am You” by Rumi
“Say I am You” I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff. Mast, rudder, helmsman, and…
Wisdom quote from Plotinus about “the stars”
The stars are like letters which inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other; as has been said: Everything breathes together. —Plotinus ca CE 204/5–270
ANIMAL & NATURE POEMS: “I am, we are” by M. Linda Steffey
A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. I AM, WE ARE I am one with trees and flowers The grasses of the plains The snowstorms and the sunshine The thunder when it rains.. I am part of mountains, deserts The mighty…
A spiritual quote from Shunryu Suzuki on “oneness”
Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. —Shunryu Suzuki
ANIMAL POEMS: “Creatures all” by M. Linda Steffey
Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind. “CREATURES ALL” Bless the Creatures all The large, the tiny, tall.. The colors, spots and flecks Some with long, thin necks Those with scale, with fin All with worth….all kin.. Those who fly up high Across Thy blue of sky And…
