Love Nature to be a Loving Person

 

Frank Lloyd Wright: “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

To know more about yourself, peek deeply into the marvelous folds of nature. Slowly, slowly the secrets will unfold. Nothing remains miraculous. You understand the whys and hows of life. Intuitive wisdom carried by the existential intelligence spreading in the form of cosmic energy makes you understand most of the things that till now puzzled your mind. Hitherto unlit dark corners vanish under the light of fresh understanding. With this fresh realization, you simply cannot help being more loving and compassionate.

L.W. Gilbert: “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”

There is a mystical pace of things in nature. You will find nothing is hurried. There is an inbuilt patience behind all this apparent running around on the stage of life and living. It makes you understand the limitation of your pursuits. Once you come to know the limits, you feel strangely empowered in the set of boundaries where you can gallop around like a happy-go-lucky filly in a barnyard.

You come to terms with eternal silence. In silence you hear the ultimate song. In the unruffled waters, you see the unmoving glimpse of the ultimate truth, like you see the reflection of a full moon in the tranquil waters of a lake. All these and more take you to the roots of creation, i.e., love.

Refreshing and exhilarating emotions swathe your spirits. Beauty braces you, kisses you. It's the finest balm. It then washes your tired self.

Look how patiently everything is waiting to reach its full potential. See how persistent are the pastures in growth and rejuvenation after all that uncomplaining trampling as the larger characters on the stage stomp over them. Rains say let's bathe. Winters say let's spread warmth and come closer. Summers say stay cool. Autumn says don't hold after ripening, just tumble down painlessly without regrets. Dawn has birth-time verve and freshness. Twilight claps for equipoise and balance. There are a whole lot of messages spread around. Keep your senses open and read.

A lonely path through the woods may turn out to be the biggest road you ever took to self discovery. You will have teachers all lined up to make you learn more and more.

Creation is gigantic. But you can have your eternally elegant pan-shots of vision with awareness. All your confusion, complexities and distress will be dissolved in the great solvent spread around. With a well-spread self, the pinching facts of life lose their edges, you forget the pain and smile, and instantly you feel like loving everything around you.

Swami Vivekananda: “External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

To know more about yourself, read nature. It's a reflection of your own self and vice versa.

This creation is abuzz with eternal seductiveness. You just need to pose and prick your senses to catch the strains. It's around you and so near. It's there in your small garden. It's there in undisturbed woods.

On closer observation, the simplest message is that creation is not human centric. This realization will turn you humble. And there is no greater manure for love than humility.

G.W. Carver: “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

Mother Nature is forever telling tales. Just that we need a restful mind to capture the nuggets of truth. Divinity and Godliness are not something you have to wait till you hit the vaults of heaven. They are already there in nature. Mother Nature is putting tireless efforts to speak out the eternal truth in the softest voice; another matter that the rhetorical force of unnecessary clatter plagues our beings, turning us deaf to the messages of truth, beauty and love.

A journey to explore nature is essentially meant to actualize the possibility of your inherent loving nature.