The Chosen Place Sanctuary

“If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!” ~Frank Herbert

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. In that kind of relationship you have enough love, strength and awakening in order to change your life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying nature. And yet the Earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the Earth.” ~John Cowper Powys

Even the tiniest habits can spark a positive impact in our lives — and inspire those around us to do the same. "By starting small with yourself and your family, you set off a chain reaction that creates an explosion of change," says BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab and Chair of Thrive's Scientific Advisory Board. What's one tiny habit that has made a big difference in your life?

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Unfortunately, I don’t do too many things quietly😂🤦🏻

I first read of Viktor Frankl in Steven Coveys best seller “7 habits of highly effective people” in 2009

Viktor was in the concentration camps and seen things ‘so repulsive hard to put into words’-
In the extermination camps, He said he found this space and realized he actually had more power as a prisoner than the N**i guards in the camp-
So 14 yrs since I read it and have yet to properly cultivate this space myself

Amen!

Perfect song to tether yourself to when things are going well for you and your people-
An essential song when they are not.

Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua Images Created and Directed By Diego Pernía. Starring Edsa Ramírez, Alejandra Infante and Fernanda Vizzuet. Produced by El Mall, based on an original idea by...

"The water is sacred. The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale. When the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree… We are all from the Earth.." ~Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment... So breathe in and be aware of your body. Look deeply into it and realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the earth." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

A 320 million year old Universe of fossilized Goniatite spirals in a sea-worn storm-beach pebble. County Clare, Ireland. Original photo and post by Cormac's Coast

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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor

“Your divinity has never been lost or misplaced, but has been slowly forgotten when you began to believe the illusion of your human limitations. Everything you can imagine is possible. You could not imagine these things if they were not possible. You are a creator that forgot your visions are attainable. You bought into the illusion that they are a fantasy. There is only a thin veil between you and your divine self, which is your natural birthright. The veil is created by this illusion.

The veil is created by ego, superiority, privilege, entitlement, power and greed. There is no way past this veil to access your divinity through force, competition, division and separateness. You can not cheat the universe by takings short cuts in your evolvement by using your ego. Humbleness, gratitude, vulnerability, compassion, ownership of one’s mis-creations, being authentic, acting from love and integrity; all these dissolve the veil between you the divinity you seek. Once the veil is dissolved, you are free from the great lie and the identity that your mind thinks you are. Once free of the illusion, you will easily slip into your divinity. It will be as easy a taking your next breath, or having the next heart beat, both of which you do not use your mind to achieve. You will merge with the brilliance that your heart had always known. YOU are who you have been waiting for. This is the HOME you have been searching for.”

- The Star Elders through Aluna Joy

“What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.” ―Ganga White

“Anyone who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions. The holy land is everywhere.” ―Black Elk

“Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle [for Native Americans]. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them... The animals had rights - the right of man's protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man's indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with the joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.”
― Chief Luther Standing Bear

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Water *is* LiFE...