Let the magic, perfect inclusion, balance, beauty and peace of the forest heal you. It is always there providing sustenance, support and Love.
(two lovely video links are listed below if you can’t get out into the forest in person)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXaBdOvFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wHq6yY2CI
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
-Lao Tzu
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody.”
-John Muir
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
-Charles Darwin
Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for both. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain…”
– John Muir
The language that nature uses, how do we touch it, know it? It surely exists on a plane that some access readily, but most humans aren’t close enough to understand.
I love this time lapse video showing the loveliness of mushrooms sprouting from the forest floor, their umbrellas unfurling majestically. It speaks to me, but the language is clearer, louder when I’m the forest itself, listening…. listening.
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.”
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyl
Sacred water, this precious gift holds our very existence.
Sweet life itself is not possible without water.
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans;
in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
-Kahlil Gibran
I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux
“Let yourself fall in love with nature. Visit new places and discover your own back yard. Spend more time outside watching sunrises and sunsets. Make time to star gaze. Stand barefoot in the beautiful earth and reconnect your soul. To the energy that created you. You are a part of a magnificent universe. Take the time to be present with it all. Allow nature to feed your soul. Those who wander will never feel lost.”
-Carly Marie
Visit new places
and discover your own back yard
Spend more time outside watching sunrises
and sunsets
Make time to star gaze
Stand barefoot on the beautiful earth. To the energy that created you. You are a part of a magnificent universe. Take the time to be present with it all. Allow nature to feed your soul. Those who wander will never feel lost.”
“The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar,
stumble,
and flourish,
as you learn to fall in love with existence.
We were born to live my dear not to merely exist.”
-Becca Lee
“If you ever find yourself empty from something you cannot know or name, find a stretch of ocean, a field, or mountainside, or even clouds or trees. Because there are 1,000 simple ways to fill your tired soul so you can remember how to be, how to see, and most importantly, how to breathe.”
-Victoria Erickson
