"Shadows are inevitable on the path of spiritual illumination.... “Stay strong You brilliant Compass You are Guiding yourself Home. "There’s a point at which you start to feel that the enormity of things is so unbelievable, you wonder how you’d ever been walking around at all. With eyes held so tightly; slivers, before. How on earth did the light get in? How did you ever arrive where you are? "Perhaps, in being led towards the heat." Read the full story by Robin Lee.... Continue reading
Archives for 2016
Kid Warrior Paris: A Generation’s Call to Action
"Change is coming. We are rising with the oceans. "Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is not your average teenager. As Youth Director of the non-profit Earth Guardians, Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced shoe-tez-cat) is leading an army of teens in over 50 countries to demand sustainable policy from our world leaders. Through his work on the front lines of the climate change movement, he is assembling a teen army to the save the planet. "Check out his adventure in Paris during the United Nations Conference of Parties … Watch video
Life in Syntropy
"Life in Syntropy" is the new short film from Agenda Gotsch. It tells the story of Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch, who bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984 and transformed it into a remarkably biodiverse working farm that reverses climate change by sequestering carbon. Watch video
Welcome to another year of transformation | Michael Edwards
"Can the world be reconstructed through the fusion of personal and social change? We say yes, and here's what we're learning..... Continue reading
A Love Letter to Wilderness
This love letter to wilderness celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act with stunning images and excerpts of poetry and words on wilderness from Edward Abbey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir and Wallace Stegner. In 50 years, the designated wilderness areas in the United States has grown from nine to 109 million acres, including national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and Bureau of Land Management lands. Watch video
Common Ground
No matter how many walls we build fences we stretch across this landscape – No matter how many names we speak against the others to make them different, wrong – Each of us was born from the soil of this land to breathe the same air, drink the same water – We share one sky – our lingering looks at changing clouds and the pattern they cast on the hills we call home – And in the folds of these valleys, the woods, fields, hedgerows, daily conversation of wren, robin and blackbird is broadcast to … Continue reading
One Stitch Closer: Veronika Scott empowers other women
Anything is possible. Be inspired by Veronika Scott, CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan. Its mission - to educate, employ, and empower homeless individuals to create a better life for themselves and their families while producing a humanitarian product for those in need. Watch video
A New Year Blessing: Beannacht by John O’Donohue
Benedictus (To Bless The Space Between Us) On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A meadow of delight. When the canvas frays In the currach of thought And a stain of ocean Blackens beneath you, May there come across the waters A path of yellow moonlight To bring … Continue reading
Summit Stories One Year On
As 2015 draws to a close, we bring you the final instalments in the 'Summit Stories One Year On' series. You may read all the stories here. Deep appreciation to those of you who contributed your insightful stories of the joys, challenges, and inspirations that unfolded this past year, in your personal journey, and in your work in the world. With abundant blessings, both personal and planetary, as we continue in service to co-create a new story of conscious awareness, love, peace and oneness in … Continue reading
