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The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace.
Every period has something new to teach us.
The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective;
the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

Joan D. Chittister

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Nature… is the living medium of our emotions and our mental concepts.

All our qualities — and particularly the most human ones like our need to be in connection, to be perceived as an individual, to be welcomed by other life and give life, in short, our need to love — spring forth from an organic “soil.”
We are part of a web of meaningful inter-penetrations of being that are corporeal and psychologically real at the same time. Humans can only fully comprehend their own inwardness if they understand their existence as cultural beings who are existentially tied to the symbolic processes active inside nature.

Andreas Weber
German marine biologist and cultural scholar
The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Hope is the source and spring
of all the alchemies of transformation,
the greatest treasure of the heart and mind,
the philosopher’s stone
that transmutes agony and tragedy
into new life.
Never abandon hope,
or you abandon your closest
and most helpful guide.

Rumi
1207-1273, Sufi mystic, poet,
founder of Mevlevi Order

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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One of the great discoveries
of the wisdom traditions
is that reality is not against us.
The universe is not a place
of punishment, fear, or isolation.
At its deepest level,
it is a field of freedom, creativity,
and infinite possibility.

Robert A.F. Thurman
(1941-2026, Buddhist author, translator, teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Poetic ecology restores the human to its rightful place within “nature” — without sacrificing the otherness, the strangeness and the nobility of other beings.
It can be read as a scientific argument that explains why the deep wonder, the romantic connection and the feeling of being at home in nature are legitimate — and how these experiences help us to develop a new view of life as a creative reality that is based on our profound, first-person observations of ecological relations.
Poetic ecology allows us to find our place in the grand whole again.

Andreas Weber
German marine biologist and cultural scholar
The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Success requires leadership from all levels of society, including from people everywhere working to grow community-facilitating cultural values, institutions, and infrastructure in the places where they live.
Together we need to achieve four conditions critical to the transition...
1. Earth balance.
We must reduce humanity’s total environmental burden to bring us into sustainable balance with the capacity of Earth’s generative systems.
This requires immediate action.
2. Equitable distribution.
We must achieve an equitable distribution of wealth and power.
Immediate action is required to stop the further concentration of wealth while advancing equitable cooperative ownership.
3. Life-serving technologies.
We must advance technologies that strengthen rather than impair life’s regenerative capacity.
Immediate action is required to roll back use of harmful technologies, including the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture and our dependence on carbon and nuclear energy.
4. Living communities.
We must rebuild relationships of people to one another and to nature to create strong, healthy, deeply democratic living communities.
This will involve reducing dependence on money while encouraging sharing and mutual self-help in the places where people live.
It is time to unite as families, communities, and nations in our common identity as members of an ecological civilization, with a commitment to creating the possible world of our shared human dream.

David Korten
'Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction', Yes Magazine, (1 November 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten

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"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Properties perceived in nature will depend on how one looks and how one looks depends on the economic interest one has in the resources of nature.
The value of profit maximization is thus linked to reductionist systems, while the value of life and the maintenance of life is linked to holistic and ecological systems.

Vandana Shiva
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (1988)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Every breath is a sacrament,
an affirmation of our connection
with all other living things,
a renewal of our link with our ancestors
and a contribution to generations yet to come.
Our breath is a part of life's breath,
the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

David Suzuki
(1936-pres., Canadian environmental activist)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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To know all your neighbors
on the global level
does not mean that you will
automatically love them all;
it does not, in and of itself,
introduce a reign of peace and brotherhood.
But to be potentially in touch
with everybody at least makes fighting
more uncomfortable.
It becomes easier to simply reason
and argue instead.

Isaac Asimov
(1920-1992, biochemist, author of over 500 books)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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How do we live human unity?
The first step is to make sure
that our hearts are clear of any hatred and prejudice
for others who are different from us.
We must develop true love in our hearts
for people of different nationalities, religions, colors,
economic status, or gender.
We must eliminate prejudice and discrimination
from our heart and our mind.
It is said that out of the abundance of our heart we speak.
If we feel hatred towards any group,
we cannot hide it for long;
it is bound to come out from our lips or show on our face.
Our actions will speak even louder than our words.
Thus, living human unity begins
with clearing our hearts
of any animosity towards others.

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
(1946 to pres., Author, Scientist,
Mystic Adept of Light and Sound Current Yoga,
Leader of Science of Spirituality and
International Movements for World Peace)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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In this universe, all activities, events, and entities are related. Indians believe that everything in the universe has value and instructs us in some aspect of life. Everything is alive and is making choices that determine the future, so the world is constantly creating itself. With the wisdom and time for reflection that old age provides, we may discover unsuspected relationships.

Vine Deloria, Jr
(1933-2005, Standing Rock Sioux Elder)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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It’s the most precious thing… to know absolutely where you belong.
There’s a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you here.
You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun –
you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you.
To be intimate is to grow, to learn… it is absolutely fulfilling.
Intimacy, that’s my magic word for why I live here.

Tessie Naranjo
(Santa Clara Pueblo Elder)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Between the conscious and the unconscious
The mind has put up a swing.
All earth creatures, even supernovas,
Sway between these two trees
And it never winds down.
Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million,
Also the wheeling sun and moon;
Ages go by, and it goes on.
Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire
And the secret one slowly growing a body.
If you see that all for even fifteen seconds,
That glimpse will cause you to be awakened for life.

Kabir (1440-1518, Mystic Poet of India)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom,
an intense and absorbing respect for life,
enriching faith in a Supreme Power.
And principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity
and brotherhood as a guide in mundane relations.

Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939, Oglala Sioux Elder)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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We’re sitting on our blessed Mother Earth
from which we get our strength and determination,
love and humility,
all the beautiful attributes
that we’ve been given.
So turn to one another;
love one another;
respect one another;
respect Mother Earth;
respect the waters-
because that’s life itself!

Phil Lane, Sr. (1915-2004, Yankton Sioux Elder)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Do not follow the idea of others,
but learn to listen
to the voice within yourself.
Your body and mind
will become clear
and you will realize
the unity of all things.

Dogen Zenji (1200–1253, Japanese Zen Teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Lots of people hardly ever feel
real soil under their feet,
see plants grow except in flower pots,
or get far enough beyond the street light
to catch the enchantment
of a night sky studded with stars.
When people live far
from scenes of the Great Spirit’s making,
it’s easy for them to forget His laws and love.

Tatanga Mani
(Walking Buffalo) (1871-1967, Stoney Tribal Elder)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Do not take lightly small good deeds,
believing they can hardly help.
For drops of water, one by one,
in time can fill a giant pot.

Patrul Rinpoche
(1808-1887, Tibetan Buddhist Teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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What could be a better indication of man’s continued dependence on nature than the fact that today’s so-called post-industrial societies satisfy most of their food needs through imports from so-called underdeveloped countries?

Vandana Shiva
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (1988)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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So, you listen, you add your voice and heart
with your humanity, with your care,
and with your sensitivity.
We’re all going through it—
suffering, pleasure, joy, all of it.
Keep your heart strong.
You can do this.
You have been training for this—
to meet the world with compassion.

Jack Kornfield
(1945 to pres., American psychologist, writer,
Theravada Vipassana Buddhism teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Every day you play
with the light of the universe.

Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973, Chilean poet-diplomat, politician,
won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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