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: "We humans are living beings born of & nurtured by a sacred living Earth, itself born of & nurtured by a sacred living universe evolving toward ever greater complexity, beauty, awareness, & possibility." #PaleBlueDot
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#JenListug: "Am I wrong to compare human failings to the mountains & rivers who are so beautiful, wild, & essential to our ecosystems? I only...stress the enormity of what we are being called to do: to #RiseUpTogether, to navigate & surmount our crises before they bury or drown us.
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#NaomiKlein: How do you change a worldview, an unquestioned ideology? Part of it involves choosing the right early policy battles - game-changing ones that don't merely aim to change laws but change patterns of thought.
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GeneenMarieHaugen: "We have psycho-spiritual receptors for an...embodied, mystical sense of #sacredEarth ...innate genius for communion & ceremonial participation w/...potent places. All creatures & the planet benefit when humans recognize, honor & participate w/ the holy Earth. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

Kerri Welch: "So much of our time is spent in the deadness of indoors, facing a screen....The mind's power [is] to travel in time & space - & its peril, to lose sensuous engaged experience w/ the body & the immediacy of the world. People & nature draw us into...the present moment."
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SkylarWilson: Experiences of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, etc,..continue to inspire, yet they are less helpful taken in place of our lived experiences of tastes, sensations, & movements w/in creative immediacy of the pulsing, wild Earth. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6
Image: "Christ in the Wilderness" by Ivan Kramskoy. Wikimedia.

That we wrestle with #evil is integral to our existence. But existence itself remains an ineffable #mystery evoking ongoing #wonder, #beauty, and #awe, and (one hopes) #gratitude in return.
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#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
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UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

Broderick Rodell: The #OrderOfTheSacredEarth isn't dogmatic. It encourages us to explore & discover new ideas while preserving the best we know. It invites us to seek wisdom from all sources from science to religion. It welcomes the atheist & agnostic as well as the religious. bit.ly/40UAOka

#JoranSlaneOppelt: "It is my prayer that the future of our planet, that Mother Earth herself, is protected by those who are willing to take these #vows [to love, protect & defend #Earth] - those committed to a new level & degree of spiritual awareness & authenticity." #OrderOfTheSacredEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3