What is the Soul of the World if not the ephemeral and gracefully unfurling mystery of Natura, which can also awaken in and work through us when we seek to walk a path of the heart?
In our times, it has become a necessity to be conscious of ‘Matter, Soul and Spirit.’ This triune of three forces forms the living, breathing natural whole that is the world around us, if we only have eyes to see, ears to hear and minds to humbly understand.
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The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. Thomas Berry
Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit. Carl Jung
Nearness to nature keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Charles Alexander Eastman
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. Richard Jefferies
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. Rachel Carson 1907 - 1964
Believe one who knows; you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from Masters. St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090 - 1153
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha 624BC - 543BC
The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colors and animals. Scott Cunningham 1956 - 1993
As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and in things we shall realize that there is consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in every thing that belongs to physical nature. Sri Aurobindo 1872 - 1950
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Miracles do not happen in contradiction with nature, but in contradiction with what we know about nature. St Augustine 354 - 430
Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. Alice Walker