Future Sacred Quotes

“Nature conveys intentions through pattern, form, and symbol.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Chaos is a part of the order of reality.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“We are participating in nature’s complex creative process. When we participate through the lessons of symbiosis and kinship, we share our gifts and view each other as gifts.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“All forms, from quanta to cosmos, from self to collective, remain interrelated and yet truly unique. When, through sacred mind, we recognize how deeply interconnected we are in our dazzling diversity, and how impermanent those exquisite expressions are, we devote and dedicate ourselves to their care.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“All life is a complex of systems. Some creatures perform as networks (like mycelia), some as superorganisms (like ants and bees), some as individuals that cooperate (like humans, ravens, and wolves). But all living beings, as far as we know, have some kind of subjectivity that connects them to other subjectivities.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Whatever our sacred gift happens to be, we honor the deeper patterns of the universe when we share it.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Embodied devotion and dedication is about how we give ourselves to the world; it’s about our relationships with other embodied beings.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Devotion and dedication are fundamentally about connection and relationships. When we sense and honor the sacred, we devote and dedicate ourselves to other beings.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Co-create or die.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Each of us lives inextricably connected to the greater cosmos, and that each of us constitutes a cosmos, a home to countless beings, just as our universe undoubtedly harbors countless other living beings.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“When we think beyond commodified gifts, we think in terms of what flows from the self—creativity, intimacy, presence, and love.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Compassion must become technology’s touchstone.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“We need to see the real magic present in reality so that we can fall in love with the world again.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Humans do not exist at the top of a meaningless hierarchy—rather, we occupy one strand in the complex and dynamic web of life.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“The universe is infinite, unbounded, and matter and mind are one.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“As humans begin to awaken to an animate and sentient universe, our attitude toward reality will change accordingly, and so will our systems.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Compassion must become technology’s touchstone.ite expressions are, we devote and dedicate ourselves to their care.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Both brains and forests form highly efficient delivery systems that optimize transmission of energy and information through a larger system.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Observing sacred mind in nature’s creativity can help us to reconnect to our own sacred mind as well. It releases a deep knowing that we inhabit a world rich with meaning—an ebbing and flowing ocean of intentionality that creates complex relationships between beautiful forms.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Nature repeats the most useful and elegant solutions.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Nature’s beauty does not need help or interference from us. We take it for granted that nature will do the job of creating shellness and beachness, flowerness, and Milky Way-ness. We delight in the beauty of these forms and patterns, and enjoy their particular blessings.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“The universe’s imagination always remains wider than our human imaginations.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Our various origin stories seek to express the relationship between human minds and what we might call nature’s mind, or what ancient people saw as the thoughts of a creator.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“I envision an integration of multiple sources of wisdom, diverse knowledge systems, and unexpected creative collaborations—all necessary ingredients for a future worth having: a future that embraces the embodied sacred.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Our ancestors viewed nature not yet as a collection of objects, but as a growing together of related beings in a web of consciousness and energy.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“The word universe comes from the Latin unus (one) and vertere (to transform, or be changed). We might say that we all transform together in this enigmatic journey full of mystery and paradox. The ancient concept of uni-versus, one thing transforming, conveyed the sense that humans belong to a greater whole. This transformational unity includes the intimate relationship between consciousness and matter.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“We have forgotten our natural ability to live together, including with our fellow nonhumans, because we have lost the sacred collective touchstone that anchors us to the fundamental truth that our lives emerge, grow, and thrive from the same great forces and processes that drive the evolution of the universe.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Our sacred future depends on what we dedicate ourselves to becoming.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“Every being devotes and dedicates itself to some innate purpose. Single cells, microbes, plants, insects, animals—every being makes its own unique contribution.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature

“The future we create will depend on how we view our past and our present.”
― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature