Part of the front garden.
Why did primitive man decide on the use of a plant? It is not so very hard to understand; the plant explained it very well. From where came this capacity of man to understand the plant? From the connection of our common ancestry and our common connection with Spirit. But when people forget that it can be so, they forget an essential aspect of being human. All of us have the capacity to enter this world and know the plants, to hear what Spirit says to them. In each soul, the longing for such experience still exists.
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| — | Stephen Harrod Buhner, in Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism. |
It is also the season of grasses. June is coming soon.
My favourite time of year is eleven months away.
The season has moved on to the blooming of the horse chestnuts. We used to call them candle trees, because the spikes of bloom reminded us of candles.
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.
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| — | Kurt Vonnegut (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y) |
To Earth-centered people, the sacred is immediate. It is present in all parts of the world and one may, simply by being willing to be in relationship with the deeper aspects of a part of the Earth, attain closer relationship with Spirit. Through this closer relationship can come knowledge that gives guidance and meaning to one’s life and community. Through this deeper relationship over time one can gain power to evoke the sacred through ceremony, to shape its course into human affairs to benefit the community, to heal and instruct, to uplift.
For those on the Earth-centered spiritual path, the Earth itself is the place of worship; all things possess a soul, every tree, stone, and root. To those in relationship with Earth, the Earth and each part of the Earth is a manifestation of the sacred, a creation of Spirit. Both the whole of the Earth and each part of it can manifest itself as the ganz andere, the totally other. Within Earth-centered cultures the stone and the tree are venerated as an expression of the sacred, a creation of God.
For those on the Earth-centered spiritual path, the Earth itself is the place of worship; all things possess a soul, every tree, stone, and root. To those in relationship with Earth, the Earth and each part of the Earth is a manifestation of the sacred, a creation of Spirit. Both the whole of the Earth and each part of it can manifest itself as the ganz andere, the totally other. Within Earth-centered cultures the stone and the tree are venerated as an expression of the sacred, a creation of God.
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| — | Stephen Harrod Buhner, in Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism. |
