Asia Suler Quotes

When healing is needed at the deepest level nature will always call us back home, not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves that we've been alienated from

Looking at the state of our world—including the health of our oceans, our soil, and our own psyches—no one would deny that a change is needed. But perhaps the shift that we are seeking is not an obvious overhaul, but something much more subtle, something each of us can initiate by focusing on the minutia of our own healing.

By giving ourselves permission to tend to the humblest details of our own journey, monumental sea-changes can happen in the world at large. When we discard the idea that any self-focus is selfish, we recognize that the journey of seeking self-compassion is actually how we empower the smallest units of our beings, giving ourselves the energy needed to make a quantum shift here on Earth. The jumps we make in our own thinking can create a leap in the overall consciousness of our planet.

It is an invitation—singular, generous, magnanimous, and essential—to let the wider death that is happening sweep away what no longer works within us, to let go of all the beliefs that have kept us apart from the world so we can become a part of everything once more. It’s clear that we can no longer live in the world our worldview has created. This world, the one we’ve been handed, the one that was drawn in lines of hierarchy and separation, has hit its expiration date—and we are the deliverers of both its demise and rebirth.