Retreat
When you find your mind full, or your heart hurting, allow yourself to retreat into solitude.
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When you find your mind full, and your heart hurting, allow yourself to retreat.
Find home amongst the beauty. Let it serve as a reflection for your true state of being. If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, where will you choose to go?
Allow the way ahead to become pathless. With each step, let thoughts dissolve. With each breath, let your soul be nourished. There is nowhere to be but here, now. Can you commit to presence?
When you quiet the mind, you will speak the language of silence. What are the trees whispering as they rustle in the wind? What love songs do the birds sing? What is the Earth signaling through you with each graceful step under your bare feet? Notice the perfect imperfections, the small reminders of beauty. Can you sense awestruck wonder and marvel in the intimacy surrounding you?
Let your spirit be called to adventure. Climb the tree. Wander off the path. Dive under the waterfall. Show yourself there is nothing to fear in leaps of faith. Start small, so then the big jumps won’t feel nearly so daunting when they arrive.
Only when your soul is nourished should you return to your perceived duties. Don’t come back to the “real world” of artificial chaos ready to play the same games as before. Remember what the beauty has taught you.
The truth you found in the pathless woods, the spirit within uncovered, bring that back and don’t let it go. Don’t allow the tyrannical nature of materialist thinking dwindle the light of your authenticity. Don’t let it close your heart again, no matter how vulnerable you must be to keep it open.
Courage is required to be yourself in a world committed to conformity. But that’s what nature is there to serve as, a place to rediscover that all you’ll ever need already lives within.
Find yourself.
Find the others.
Open your heart
and you’re sure to discover
the miracle of this moment
and gratitude for sharing it together.
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