SPIRIT OF THE
ECO-RESTORATIVE MOVEMENT
Beyond Sustainability – An Evolutionary Process
Toward Care for the Greater Community of Life
presented by:
Tim Watson, NCARB
At:
“Transforming
…
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
- Brenda Ueland
You too are a Medicine Wheel, and the magic of your Perceiving will be unfolded.
- Hyemeyohsts Storm
” A wee child toddling in a wonder world , , , I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Redbird)
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. —Wendell Berry
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
- Shakti Gawain
The entire Creation still follows the Original Instructions of life. The Tree, the fruits, they never fail.
They never make a mistake to bring their fruits in their season.
The Animals never make a mistake.
They still live as they were created.
Among the Creation…Life, the Circle, a measurement with no beginning and no ending.
- Phillip Deere (Muskogee Creek 1977)
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
-Theodore Roethke
Every element of creation expresses the Creator. Within each mountain, each stone, and each heart lies the Great Spirit… When looking upon a sunset, the trees, or even your worst enemy, you are looking at the Creator. Know this and give praise and prayer.
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Redbird)
So be patient with the events in life that find you feeling disappointed, and remember each line we script in the Great Play we call life, is a line that is never wasted, and a line that can ultimately lead to something more beautiful than we can ever possibly imagine in the present. This is true for each one of us.
-Tim Watson
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at the center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be One.”
Spoken by Chief Crazy Horse, September, 1877.
SPIRIT OF THE
ECO-RESTORATIVE MOVEMENT
Beyond Sustainability – An Evolutionary Process
Toward Care for the Greater Community of Life
presented by:
Tim Watson, NCARB
At:
“Transforming
…
Paul Hawken is a friend of Charity Focus, renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, founder of Wiser Earth and author of many books — most recently “Blessed Unrest”.
Recently he was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University…
Wisdom of First Peoples
Native Peoples and their ancestry have a way of seeing life through the eyes of Nature.
In this way they relate to all the expressions of life Creator’s gifts. Those that swim, the winged ones, those…
Hopi Elder Speaks
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour…
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Our New Monk Monthly Selection – January 2009
I Will Take a Good Look at Today
I will take a good look at today,
And consider its circumstances-
For it (each day) is a stepping stone into the unknown..
And not knowing,
why rob the day of its…