04/08/2026
βWe get lost in doing,
thinking,
remembering,
anticipating-
lost in a maze of complexity,
in a world of problems.
Nature can show us
the way home-
the way out
of the prison
of our own minds.
We have forgotten
what plants and animals
still know.
We have forgotten
how to be-
to be still,
to be ourselves,
to be where life is:
Here and Now.
Whenever you bring your attention
to anything natural-
anything that exists
without human intervention-
you step out
of the prison
of conceptual thinking.
To look at a stone,
a tree,
or an animal-
is not to think about it.
It is to perceive it.
To hold it
in your awareness.
And then...
its essence
reveals itself to you.
You begin to sense
its stillness.
And in that moment-
the same stillness
arises within you.
You feel how deeply
it rests in Being.
And in realizing this...
you too arrive
at a place of rest
deep within yourself.
When walking in nature-
or simply sitting-
honor that space.
Be still.
Look.
Listen.
See how every animal,
every plant-
is completely itself.
Unlike humans,
they have not
split themselves in two.
They do not live
through mental images
of themselves.
So they have nothing
to protect.
Nothing to prove.
The deer is itself.
The daffodil is itself.
All things in nature
are one
with the whole.
They do not separate themselves
from existence-
they do not say:
βmeβ
and the rest of the universe.
And in observing this...
something shifts.
The contemplation of nature
frees you-
from that βme.β
The great troublemaker.
- Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle