the animals
During the 7 Days of Rest, we take time to honour the animals. We recognize them not only in all their sentience and mulitplicity of intelligences, but also in the diverse ways that they enrich, regulate and steward the entire Web of Life.
We acknowledge the pain and suffering we have caused them and use this time to learn to restore right and loving relationship with them.
We encourage animal lovers to create local events - circles of love and compassion for the animals during this time to amplify the collective field of consciousness co-creating a world of love, peace and reverence for all life.
For more inspiration and information about how to add your voice for the Trees please also visit the #I Speak 4 , the Loving Diversity and the Befriend Diversity.
an invitation for rest and reflection with the animals

inspiration: gratitude for the animals
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Prayer for the Animals
With profound shame and grief
we ask forgiveness for the
excruciating suffering
we have inflicted upon you for millennia
while you have sacrificed yourselves
in service of the evolution of consciousness
We thank you and honor you
for having selflessly taught us
the limits and limitlessness of our capacity for
compassion and cruelty
that result from being trapped in
artificial polarities between
good and evil
right and wrong
superiority and inferiority
mastery and slavery
birthed into being as humans
began to pursue
the consciousness of the
Tree of Knowledge and law
severed from heart wisdom
and the vital intelligence
of the Tree of Life
We pray that we can now claim
the state of grace
that is the pure experience
of love and gratitude
towards you and all sentient beings
We now commit to learning from you
the principle of sacred relationship,
the secret of vitality,
that is the life enhancing balance
of mutual nourishment,
of giving and receiving
among all uniquely self-realized parts
of our interdependent whole
