every day is a celebrating of our mother, a resounding of our commitment with our bounteous cosmos/with ourselves… for today’s celebration and psalm of cosmic adoration, i turn to an eco-poet, environmental activist and sacred sage of farsightedness to walk with us home along the green path into beloved community:

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Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth As Sacred Community

“It takes a universe to bring humans into being, a universe to educate humans, a universe to fulfill the human mode of being. More immediately, it takes a solar system and a planet Earth to shape, educate, and fulfill the human.

We can explain nothing if we cannot explain the whole. Our explanation of any part of the universe is integral to our understanding of the universe itself.

…we must think about and respond to the urgency of a renewal of the integral community of life systems throughout the Earth. Renewal is a community project.

What is needed is a new pattern of rapport with the planet. Here we come to the critical transformation needed in the emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and religious orders of life. Only a change that profound in human consciousness can remedy the deep cultural pathology manifest in such destructive behavior. Such change is not possible, however, so long as we fail to appreciate the planet that provides us with a world abundant in the volume and variety of food for our nourishment, a world exquisite in supplying beauty of form, sweetness of taste, delicate fragrances for our enjoyment, and exciting challenges for us to overcome with skill and action. The poets and artists can help restore this sense of rapport with the natural world. It is this renewed sense of reciprocity with nature, in all of its complexity and remarkable beauty, that can help provide the psychic and spiritual energies necessary for the work ahead.

We come into being in and through the Earth. Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.

We need a spirituality that emerges our of a reality deeper than ourselves, a spirituality that is as deep as the Earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. For it is in the stars that the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. Out of these elements the solar system and Earth took shape, and out of Earth, ourselves.

In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future.”

~ Thomas Berry ~

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thousand fold thanks for living the dream of the earth and taking the great work on…

every day is a celebrating of our mother, a resounding of our commitment with our bounteous cosmos/with ourselves… for today’s celebration and psalm of cosmic adoration, i turn to an eco-poet, environmental activist and sacred sage of farsightedness to walk with us home along the green path into beloved community…

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Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth As Sacred Community

“It takes a universe to bring humans into being, a universe to educate humans, a universe to fulfill the human mode of being. More immediately, it takes a solar system and a planet Earth to shape, educate, and fulfill the human.

We can explain nothing if we cannot explain the whole. Our explanation of any part of the universe is integral to our understanding of the universe itself.

…we must think about and respond to the urgency of a renewal of the integral community of life systems throughout the Earth. Renewal is a community project.

What is needed is a new pattern of rapport with the planet. Here we come to the critical transformation needed in the emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and religious orders of life. Only a change that profound in human consciousness can remedy the deep cultural pathology manifest in such destructive behavior. Such change is not possible, however, so long as we fail to appreciate the planet that provides us with a world abundant in the volume and variety of food for our nourishment, a world exquisite in supplying beauty of form, sweetness of taste, delicate fragrances for our enjoyment, and exciting challenges for us to overcome with skill and action. The poets and artists can help restore this sense of rapport with the natural world. It is this renewed sense of reciprocity with nature, in all of its complexity and remarkable beauty, that can help provide the psychic and spiritual energies necessary for the work ahead.

We come into being in and through the Earth. Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.

We need a spirituality that emerges our of a reality deeper than ourselves, a spirituality that is as deep as the Earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. For it is in the stars that the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. Out of these elements the solar system and Earth took shape, and out of Earth, ourselves.

In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future.”

~ Thomas Berry ~

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thousand fold thanks for living the dream of the earth and taking the great work on…

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Happy B’Earth Day!

wow – what an auspicious and synchronous day is today – another day of celebrating our earthmother and this day is the 51st Earth Day Celebration along with two sacred B’earthdays – my soul and the 3rd birthday of a sacred soul family’s birth and a crowning glory of getting to in joy this day with some of my very favorite beings on the planet and speaking of crowning glories, i love this picture of our island home with her corona, her crown shining brightly reheartening us to re-member the birthing process is dark and difficult coming through the birth canal and then the crowning and the birth of astonishing light…

yes, feeling into the astonishing light crowning our beautiful mother brings me into the sacred space of appreciation and reverence for the miraculous gifts of beauty and radical regeneration mama gaia is and bestows on us, so, let’s take this moment of eternity to conspire, breathe together, shall we?

  breathe feelings of peace and love through your heart, our one heart for a few minutes to sync us into the rhythm of our beloved earth… you might want to put a hand over the heart and/or the belly to anchor into the deep earth of being…

now, connect in the heart with all relatives around the planet as we feel appreciation and care for our Earth… feel the collective heart power amplifying the effectiveness of our care…

hold a vision of a pristine restoration for all of nature — oceans, rivers, trees, plants, animals, stars, clouds, minerals…

now see the crown of shining lights as a ring of compassionate heart energy surrounding our planet and see it dissipating humanity’s separation and lack of harmonious cooperation… see all our relations awakening more deeply with an energetic connection with our true nature and understanding our feelings and thoughts and behavior patterns affect cosmic harmony…

take a few minutes each day, if possible, to envision an increasing momentum of people opening their hearts and putting love and heart-felt connection into action…

let’s close this breathing together, this conspiring by sending our compassionate care to all who are experiencing grief and trauma and stress from all the crises we are suffering in this moment of dying to the old to birth the new as your heart, our one heart guides the way…

may we listen deeply to mama gaia, emulate her devocean and compassion and be as she is – holy/wholly vessels of love…

Happy B’Earth Day!

Holy Synchronicity!! Holy Trifecta!!!

wow – it is the 50th Earth Day Celebration along with my Soul Bearthday on this auspicious 4-4-4 day vibrating at earth frequency drawing down the potent energies of the taurus new moon in the season of the crown/corona virus mutating into the karuna/compassion virus…

  in this moment, this beautiful moment, with so much to share, i’m re-membering the first one in 1970 and feeling the passion and excitement of that day right here, right now… yes, feeling the great turning brings me to appreciating gaia, so let’s conspire, breathe together, shall we? 

breathe feelings of peace and love through your heart area for a few minutes to set a calm tone…

now connect in the heart with all relatives around the planet appreciating and caring for our Earth… feel the collective heart power amplifying the effectiveness of our care…

hold a vision of a pristine restoration for all of nature — oceans, rivers, trees, plants, animals, stars, clouds, minerals…

now see the crown of shining lights as a ring of compassionate heart energy surrounding our planet and see it dissipating humanity’s separation and lack of harmonious cooperation… see our relations awakening more deeply with an energetic connection with our true nature and understanding our feelings and behavior patterns affect cosmic harmony…

take a few minutes each day if possible, to envision an increasing momentum of people opening their hearts and putting love and heart-felt connection into action…

let’s close this breathing together by sending our compassionate care to all who are experiencing stress from the coronavirus pandemic, from the climate change, from social injustices, and other areas of stress, as your heart guides you…

may we listen deeply to mama gaia, emulate her devocean and compassion and be as she is – holy/wholly vessels of love…

Happy Earthmother Day!

everyday is earthmother day and there’s so much to say about our fragile/fierce island home… today i’m re-membering this day 49 years ago when 20 million of us human people gathered across the planet and a movement was born catalyzing so much change with monumental changes still called for today…

To honor our pilgrimage with Earth Mother, today i’m luxuriating in this third rock from the sun and want to perfume our field with a song of praise in reverence to our sacred mother…

In Praise of the Earth

Let us bless
The imagination of the Earth.
That knew early the patience
To harness the mind of time,
Waited for the seas to warm,
Ready to welcome the emergence
Of things dreaming of voyaging
Among the stillness of land.

And how light knew to nurse
The growth until the face of the Earth
Brightened beneath a vision of color.

When the ages of ice came
And sealed the Earth inside
An endless coma of cold,
The heart of the Earth held hope,
Storing fragments of memory,
Ready for the return of the sun.

Let us thank the Earth
That offers ground for home
And holds our feet firm
To walk in space open
To infinite galaxies.

Let us salute the silence
And certainty of mountains:
Their sublime stillness,
Their dream-filled hearts.

The wonder of a garden
Trusting the first warmth of spring
Until its black infinity of cells
Becomes charged with dream;
Then the silent, slow nurture
Of the seed’s self, coaxing it
To trust the act of death.

The humility of the Earth
That transfigures all
That has fallen
Of outlived growth.

The kindness of the Earth,
Opening to receive
Our worn forms
Into the final stillness.

Let us ask forgiveness of the Earth
For all our sins against her:
For our violence and poisonings
Of her beauty.

Let us remember within us
The ancient clay,
Holding the memory of seasons,
The passion of the wind,
The fluency of water,
The warmth of fire,
The quiver-touch of the sun
And shadowed sureness of the moon.

That we may awaken,
To live to the full
The dream of the Earth
Who chose us to emerge
And incarnate its hidden night
In mind, spirit, and light.

~ John O’Donohue ~