“The guardian of life, however, does not derive all of his power and assuredness from reasoning and logic. The basic principle of life protection, the conservation of the Earth’s life as a lush and diverse whole, is also perceived as being sacred: as something incomparably holier than anything man might regard as such (not that in this age of cynical despair much holiness is left!).”
“The trees were making their spring sounds, popping and cracking, the snow blowing by and whooshing against her skin, and spring birds making their small and distinctive calls”
“…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty.”
“Humans are trash.”
“Finnish agriculture is so dully over-mechanised that it defies all statistics and diagrams. Every village in Finland, far from being an embodiment of farming and the rural way of life, reminds one of a technological exposition, whereas serenity and the values of tradition are still visible in the countryside of all other European countries. Finland — at least a few years ago — was the world leader of electronic financial transfers. Ideas about electronic systems and computers enter our silly heads like knives cut through butter. Personally, those who feel so important and busy that they couldn’t survive without mobile phones in their cars, I would send to the mountains for a year, or rather five years, for them to reflect on the values of life. But perhaps that wouldn’t help either: if a mind is dull, it’ll stay dull.”
“How do we present our cause before God? Many has lead millions over the years towards a path of confusion, having a version of God and setting a standard via which God can be accessed. So I tell people, for you to understand God, you first need to give up self.”
“An empowered woman is creative like nature and majestic beyond measures.”
“A mother is all tolerating like nature; kind, loving, and majestic beyond measures.”
“I don t trust or understand the things that people make or come up with. I feel safer with nature. It s just there, for everyone to see, touch, taste, smell, and hear. There s a simplicity to it that puts me at ease.”
“If you were born without wings, it is nature; but if you die without wings, it is on you.”
“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.”
“When you go to say hello to nature, put every redundant sound away, for nature is music, and that alone should suffice.”
“Nobody applauds nature, yet she still glows.”
“My deepest wish for you is that the deepest parts of you can one day put down the battle and let yourself truly be held in a cradle of loving sunlight. - from Cradle of Sunlight, The School of Soft-Attention”
“Make the sunrise a temple. - from The Old Code of Good Travelers, The School of Soft-Attention”
“There is a Great Story that binds us all together and it s not the one any of us grew up with. - from Cosmology, The School of Soft-Attention”
“Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature.”