We are part of nature. Nature made us, and at our death we will be reabsorbed into nature. We are at home in nature and in our bodies. This is where we belong. This is the only place where we can find and make our paradise, not in some imaginary world on the other side of the grave. If nature is the only paradise, then separation from nature is the only hell. When we destroy nature, we create hell on earth for other species and for ourselves.

(Source: yeah-it-makes-me-wonder, via chakra-child)

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it."

� David Orr (via ohmothernature, free-wilderness)

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."

� Martin Luther King, Jr. (via wordslessspoken)

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I’d like to sleep in a flower.

(Source: healthbuddha, via iliketolive)

"You must first love yourself before you love another.

By accepting yourself and joyfully being what you are, you fulfill your own abilities, and your simple presence can make others happy. You cannot hate yourself and love anyone else. It is impossible. You will instead project all the qualities you do not think you possess upon someone else, do them lip service, and hate the other individual for possessing them. Though you profess to love the other, you will try to undermine the very foundations of his or her being."

� Seth, The Nature of Personal Reality (via nirvikalpa)

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, and makes you happy."

� (via winterworries)

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