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25-01-2015, 09:21 PM
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Pantheism
I saw this quotation elsewhere and it sums me up to a T.
"Every walk into the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere."
~ John Burroughs
Revering the Universe. Caring for Nature. Celebrating Life.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting.[Gibran]
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25-01-2015, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by norseman
It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere."
~ John Burroughs
Revering the Universe. Caring for Nature. Celebrating Life.
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Yes. Very nice thoughts. |
26-01-2015, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by norseman
I saw this quotation elsewhere and it sums me up to a T.
"Every walk into the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere."
~ John Burroughs
Revering the Universe. Caring for Nature. Celebrating Life.
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That's great. I could never understand how a man could be surrounded by nature and not believe in a higher power of some sort.
My family and myself have just returned from a long weekend camping and fishing trip to the coast and I feel completely recharged. So recharged in fact that I don't feel very much like going into the factory tomorrow morning.LOL.
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26-01-2015, 09:08 AM
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Shaunc, I am retired [long time ago], I spend most of my free-time just roaming the moors and dales of Northern England and have done so for almost 50 years.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting.[Gibran]
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26-01-2015, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by norseman
Shaunc, I am retired [long time ago], I spend most of my free-time just roaming the moors and dales of Northern England and have done so for almost 50 years.
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I envy you. But my first responsibility is to my family. Maybe one day when I'm older. |
10-03-2015, 01:19 PM
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I think one of the challenges of pantheism is to understand the oneness in all things...not just what we tern "nature"...but realize it's just as true and real in a plastic straw or cigarette butt as it is in an oak branch or river rock.
It's either all a part of the oneness or it's not. We don't get to pick and choose and still use the term Pantheism.
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12-04-2015, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by norseman
Shaunc, I am retired [long time ago], I spend most of my free-time just roaming the moors and dales of Northern England and have done so for almost 50 years.
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you are a lucky man, indeed, norseman. 
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...nature does not know how to lie. It is such a simple observation, that there are no straight lines in Nature.
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12-04-2015, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Shaunc
That's great. I could never understand how a man could be surrounded by nature and not believe in a higher power of some sort.
My family and myself have just returned from a long weekend camping and fishing trip to the coast and I feel completely recharged. So recharged in fact that I don't feel very much like going into the factory tomorrow morning.LOL.
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what other higher power is there than nature? the earth is our mother. No need to go looking "higher".
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...nature does not know how to lie. It is such a simple observation, that there are no straight lines in Nature.
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12-04-2015, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by OftheSun
I think one of the challenges of pantheism is to understand the oneness in all things...not just what we tern "nature"...but realize it's just as true and real in a plastic straw or cigarette butt as it is in an oak branch or river rock.
It's either all a part of the oneness or it's not. We don't get to pick and choose and still use the term Pantheism.
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Yes I like the idea of finding the oneness in a plastic straw or cigarette butt as well as in "nature". |
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