We’re Not Just Cabbages!
“Clouds do not just sail through the air, flowers are not just beautiful and human beings do not just grow out of the earth like cabbages.”
–Rudolf Steiner (Croatian-born Austrian Mystic, Occultist, Social Philosopher, Architect and Founder of Anthroposophy, 1861-1925)
“Man in the Past, the Present and the Future” (Rudolf Steiner)
The Power of Nature
“The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet and Essayist, 1803-1882)
Walk As Much As You Can If You Can
“Walking inspires and promotes conversation that is grounded in the body, and so it gives the soul a place where it can thrive. I think I could write an interesting memoir of significant walks I have taken with others, in which intimacy was not only experienced but set fondly into the landscape of memory. When I was a child, I used to walk with my Uncle Tom on his farm, across fields and up and down hills. We talked of many thing, some informative and some completely outrageous, and quite a few very tall stories emerged on those bucolic walks. Whatever the content of the talking, those conversations remain important memories for me of my attachment to my family, to a remarkable personality, and to nature.”
–Thomas Moore (American Psychotherapist and Writer, 1940-)
“Soul Mates: Honoring the Mystery of Love and Relationship” (Thomas Moore)
Awareness Heals
Such an important, oft-forgotten truth:
“Awareness heals.”
–Stephen Levine (American Poet, Writer and Spiritual Teacher Best Known for His Work on Grief, Death and Dying, 1937-)
“Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker’s Journey” (Stephen Levine)
We Should Go Forth
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return – sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.”
–Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
Learning From the Wisdom of All Things
“We must learn about Wisdom from all things. As scripture says, ‘Wisdom has made and continues always to adapt everything (Ps. :). It is the cause of the unbreakable accommodation and order of all things and it is forever linking the goals of one set of things with the sources of another and in this fashion it makes a thing of beauty of the unity and the harmony of the whole.”
–Pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite (a.k.a. Pseudo-Denys, Anonymous Theologian and Philosopher, Late 5th and Early 6th Century)
“Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)” (Pseudo Dionysius)
Ready To Respond to the Whispers of Intuition
“At any moment we can receive warnings, news or clarification from the invisible world.
So, pay attention, stay tuned in, so that you form a sort of photoelectric cell warning you when an entity, a current, is coming by. And straight away try to know its nature.
When you feel a current of light lightly touching you, remain still until it takes hold of you. Wait for it to pervade your soul, and then it will be with you throughout the day whatever you are doing. The more spiritual the current, the faster it goes by. Divine currents travel in space at lightning speed. And so you should try to keep your subtle centers in a fit state to react immediately.”
–Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (Bulgarian Spiritual Master, 1900-1986)
Seeing the Whole Picture
“Perception of inconsistencies, of oppositions and of flat contradictions…these seem to be products of partial cognition, and fade away with cognition of the whole.”
–Abraham H. Maslow (American Psychologist, 1908-1970)
Developing True Perception
“When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe.”
–Chögyam Trungpa (Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Teacher, Scholar, Artist and Founder of Naropa University, 1940-1987)
Living in Awe
“Making Peace With God: A Practical Guide” (Harold H. Bloomfield, Philip Goldberg)
“Evidence suggests that the original meaning of the phrase that has come down to us as ‘fear of God’ was something more like awe. And awe, wrote Abraham Joshua Heschel, ‘enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal’.”
Harold Bloomfield (American Psychiatrist and Expert on Holistic Medicine, 1944-)
Phillip Goldberg (American Spiritual Counselor, Interfaith Minister and Author)
