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.
