Interconnectedness
The place is alive. Every rock is animate and sentient—but in our worldview this is true of all rocks.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
That all things are imbued with a soul; not just humans and animals, but mountains, thunder, shadows, and even the wind. If we learn to listen to and engage in a dialogue with that diversity of voices, we begin to see how there is a constant dynamism taking place between waking and dreaming, seen and unseen, mundane and holy.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
I longed for indigenous, earth-centred practices, which put dreaming back into the hands of the people.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about. Connecti
... See moreWhat makes you the individual you are is not your autonomy but your interdependent and communal relationship with everything else in nature. But having a specific and unique way of belonging to the world in no way implies that you necessarily know what that place is. Although you were born with the potential to occupy that place, you were not born
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
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