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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?" -- Albert Einstein
[NOTE: Yes, this is a verified quote. It's from Einstein's Cosmic Religion: with Other Opinions and Aphorisms (Covici-Friede, 1931); and quoted in The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (May 30, 2000); Page 208.]
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"In nature's economy, the currency is not money -- it is life." -- Vandana Shiva
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"What
does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences...
To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits,
To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her
discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a
destiny to which we return. It's very simple... " -- Thomas Berry: What
does the Earth Desire? - An interview with Thomas Berry at Gaia house in
2003
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"All
of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all
life, everything that is on this planet." -- Wangari Maatha
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka , and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us ..." -- Black Elk
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
“Nature's wisdom teaches us that where life is in motion, it's healthy; where it's stagnant, it's dying. But people have to interpret that journey in a way that's authentic for them . . . whatever helps you. We call it 'finding your own true north' -- like on a compass. In production-drive societies, we're tricked into believing that true north is outside of us. So we're constantly looking outside ourselves to figure out if this is the right job, the right house, the right relationship, the right subject to be studying. But our true north is invariably inside us . . . if we do what we love to do, what we're inspired to do, what we believe in, it creates an entirely different response.” -- Julia Butterfly Hill
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| Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 2015. |
"Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature. For in the co-arising nature of things, the world itself, if we are bold enough to love it, acts through us. It does not ask us to be pure or perfect, or wait until we are detached from all passions, but only to care to harness the sweet, pure intention of our deepest passions, and, as the early scripture of the Mother of the Buddhas says, 'fly like a Bodhisattva.'" -- Joanna Macy
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