The whole world reflects our mind, but Nature is where the stillness and depth of it are more readily perceived.

 

We are told that nature heals and restores our peace of mind. But why?  Nature does not have a personal agenda of any kind—it just does what is literally natural to do, and in this way, reminds us of our own innate nature—wild, still, cyclic, transient, and beautiful in all its expressions. Nature is not asking us to be more or less of who we are—just exactly who we are.

Poet Alan Ginsberg had a meta-trick summed up in one of his mind-writing slogans that states: "Notice what you notice"—if we apply this advice to ourselves with diligence and sincerity, our own lives become deeply meaningful and rich—we are the creator of meaning and the instrument in which our own divinity can know itself.