Niamh

“Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”
― Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

“Within my body are all the sacred places of the world and the most profound pilgrimage that I can ever make is within my own body.”
― Saraha

“At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.”
― François Jullien, The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China

“I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with our entire being. Then the Void is not the negation merely of our limited personality, but the Plenum-Void which includes, embraces and nourishes it, like the womb of space in which the light moves eternally without ever being lost.”
― Anagarika Govinda, The Way of the White Clouds