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Today you are you
that is truer than true
There is no one alive
who is youer than you

—Dr. Seuss

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But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it came to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I just knew what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can’t miss it.

—The Color Purple

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A Rock, A River, A Tree

—Maya Angelo,
On the Pulse of Morning

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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree

—Joyce Kilmer

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Happy little trees.

—Bob Ross

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Stand still.
The trees ahead
and bushes beside you
are not lost.

—David Wagoner, Lost

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Listen as the wind blows
from across the Great Divide

—Sarah McLachlan

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The earth has music for those who listen.

—William Shakespeare

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I believe in the sand
beneath my toes

—Third Eye Blind

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There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

—Wendell Berry

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There's a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In my room
In my room

—The Beach Boys

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The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I walk through the universe in my sneakers.

―Billy Collins

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Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes if you're really looking.

—George Carlin

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We are sacred beings—as are our parts, as is the Earth. Too many people die without knowing that.

—Richard Schwartz

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Luminous beings are we,
not this crude matter.

—Yoda

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I am a Hindu and a Muslim and a Christian and a Jew.

―Mahatma Gandhi

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Fools say in their heart
Rasta, your god is dead
But I and I know, Jah Jah
Dread, it shall be dread a dread

—Bob Marley

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100% stardust.

―Seen on a T-shirt at Berkeley Bowl

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The world is its own magic.

—D.T. Suzuki

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ONE STORMY AUTUMN NIGHT

Poem: To a Child

Upstream

Poem: How to Be a Poet

Poem: The Sacred

For Small Creatures Such as We

shimenawa · shide · yorishiro · shintai · kodama · yamabiko · iwakura · yōkai

kami

drala

On “feeling shinto”

On animism & nature worship

Anthropology of religion

Pando · listen

List of oldest trees

Trees in mythology

List of tree deities

List of water deities

List of nature deities

animal worship

astrotheology

sacred mountains

sacred groves

Pantheism

Panpsychism

Creation spirituality

World religions map

I Ching

What it means to be spiritual but not religious

Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians

How to make life more transcendent

On the naming of objects

A design lab is making rituals for secular people

Seeing spirituality in chimpanzees

Non-believers on the meaning of life

Secular Buddhism

Some of the dharma

Poem: At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border

Poem: Every Land

The Sense of Wonder

The Diamond Approach

On religion and spirituality in psychotherapy

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How do you experience spirituality?
What is sacred to you?
How do you honor it?
How might you like to honor it even more?

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