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"The new conception of self, personal
and collective, that will be born from the collapse of the present one will
therefore bring with it a very different kind of technology, economy, medicine,
and way of life, that seek to create
beauty and that model themselves on the processes of
nature. It is not so much a "return to nature" as a returning of nature to us,
a recovering of nature, a reconnection to nature. Of course, nature has never
left us; everything we are is in some sense natural. It is only because we have
convinced ourselves otherwise that life has drifted
so far out of balance. Another way to view the shift of
consciousness is that we will fall back in
love with nature." -
Charles
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"We now use the word
Nature
much as our fathers used the
word God."
- John
Burroughs
"Man is a part of
nature." - Frank Thilly
"The well-being of man depends on the well-being
of non-man elements in nature." - Thich Nhat
Hanh
As the mind works by pattern matching inexperienced individuals find
nature incomprehensible and of apparent infinite variety. This
image of reality as
composed of a seemingly chaotic nature is due to a
lack of experience of the individual in
living within nature.
Individuals of industrialized cultures are not likely to see the
seamless way in which nature works as such
an understanding comes
only from immersion in
nature.
Nature is defined as:
God
humankind's natural state
natural affection or reverence
to endow with
natural qualities
synonymous with
the word 'God'
the
material Earth and its
phenomena
the
processes and functions of the body
constitution or quality of
mind or character
the
natural or real aspect of a
individual, place, or
thing
the essential characteristics and qualities of a
individual or
thing
the world of living
things and the
outdoors: the beauties of nature
the
fundamental character or disposition
of an individual;
temperament
physical
existence; the vital powers; the natural life
the existing
system of
things; the earth
of matter, or of matter and mind; the
creation; the universe
the established or regular course
of things; usual order of events;
connection of cause and effect
a primitive
state of existence, untouched and uninfluenced by
civilization or
artificiality
The sum of qualities and
attributes which make a individual or
thing what it is,
as distinct from all
else; native character;
inherent or
essential qualities or attributes;
quality of
being.
The personified sum and order of causes
and effects;
the powers which produce
existing
phenomena,
whether in the
total or in detail;
the agencies
which carry on the processes of creation or of
being;
often conceived of as a single and separate
being,
embodying the total of all finite agencies
and forces.
"In nature, no
thing is perfect
and every thing is perfect.
Trees can be
contorted, bent in a weird way, and
they're still beautiful." - Alice
Walker
Men who try to stand in the
way of nature,
who try to control nature, are,
always have been
and always will be, ultimately, unsuccessful.
Nature has an
endless amount of time to thwart men's grandest
designs.
Those who believe
evil exists in nature have
been decieved!
Affinity for the splendor
of nature is encoded in our genes.
The blue light of the sky is a potent regulator of the
circadian
system managing the
whole neuroendocrine rhythm.
The natural
world,
the primary source of stimulation of the sense of
touch,
hearing, sight,
smell and taste,
creates a complex
architecture in the human brain.
The
pleasure of being immersed in
nature is
fundamental to
human happiness
and well-being.
"Yet I
experienced sometimes that the most sweet and
tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may
be found in any natural
object, even for the poor misanthrope and
most melancholy man. There can be no very
black melancholy to him who lives in the
midst of Nature and has his senses still. There was
never yet such a storm but it was
Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. Nothing can rightly compel a
simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make
life a burden to me." -
Henry David Thoreau
"It is indeed the
favourite maxim of a popular exception
philosophy, that "there is no
rule without an exception," - a maxim about as respectable as
the proverbs along with which it commonly passes current. Applied to
conventional usages - to the tenets of state policy
- to social regulations - to the precepts of pocket
prudence - to the laws
of grammar, of art, of etiquette - or to those common
aphorisms which roughly classify the experiences
of every day life, it may
be true enough; but if affirmed of the
essential principles of
things, of society, of man, it is
utterly false.
Nature's
rules, on the contrary, have no
exceptions. The apparent ones are only
apparent; not real. They are indications either that
we have not found the true law,
or that we have got an imperfect expression of it. Thus, if terrestrial
gravitation be defined as "a tendency possessed by all free bodies to descend
towards the centre of the Earth," you may triumphantly
add—"all free bodies except the balloon." But your balloon is no
exception. Its ascent is just as much a
result of gravitation as the falling of a stone. You have merely proved that
the definition does not adequately express the law.
The so-called exceptions are in ourselves,
not in nature. They show either that the
law eludes our
perception, or baffles
our power of expression.
Rightly understood, the progress from
deepest ignorance to highest
enlightenment, is a progress from entire
unconsciousness of law, to the conviction that
law is universal and inevitable. Accumulating
knowledge and continual induction are ever
restricting the old ideas of special causation
within narrower limits. Each new discovery in science—every anomaly
solved—strengthens men in the belief that
phenomena result from general
uniform forces. Every increment of
knowledge goes to show that constancy is an
essential attribute of the
Divine rule: an unvaryingness which
renders the eclipse of a hundred years hence predicable to a
moment! It is enough for us to
know that constancy is the
law, and we have no alternative but to assume that
law to be the best possible one." - Herbert
Spencer
In early
religious systems it was thought that entities, typically
conceptualized as
gods, controlled the various aspects of
nature/reality.
Originally the forces of
nature were seen as separate
entities which gave rise to a pantheon of
gods.
In
shaministic religions the unseen
forces believed
to be controlling different aspects of
nature or reality were naturally seen as
separate spirits each having different attributes in the
power of control over
nature/reality -
much as an individual
life spirit inhabits
every unique organic being or animal.
The Greeks devised a way of looking at the
forces of human nature (human emotions and desires - Eros,
) in combination with the forces of
natural reality (thunder,
lightning, wind, sea,
storm, etcetera)
and these
forces came to be known as the Hellenistic
gods.
Concepts of unseen forces, deities or spirits have always represented the
forces
that
enlightened minds
know,
understand and
see as one unified God, or
nature/reality.
Life,
created in nature, by nature, is subject to the
Natural Laws/Laws of God
set in place by the
Creator and Sustainer of all that
exists.
Humans
understand nurturing as a
sign of compassion.
Humans have been nurtured throughout the
history of life
on Earth or they would not exist today.
Humans exist as we
do today because of the
Natural Laws/Laws of God.
Humans existence,
understood through a
concept named the theory
of evolution,
is in and of itself proof
of God's
compassion.
The fact that compassion
exists in us and we belong in
nature,
is proof that
compassion emanates from the essence of our being/life given to us by our Creator.
We, as a part of nature, carry
the essence of God/nature/reality within us. Our spirits are
created in the spiritual image of God. This
essence of God is
known as the
divine spark of our
soul/spirit - that
which animates our flesh.
Our flesh
created from the inanimate matter of nature/reality that originally emanated
from God.
We, as a part of nature,
are still at the mercy of
God/nature/reality .
God/nature/reality enlightens us when we
understand the Laws of God and
God's Natural Law.
Sin is human
behavior that has
life threatening consequences due to the
Natural Law of God.
Sin corrupts the
practitioner by corrupting the
soul/spirit which is
the spark of
the divine
essence of God that
resides within each living
creature.
Sin, in the light of
knowledge, is anything that hurts us or any
other life,
all of which carries the
divine
spark of soul/spirit bestowed
upon all life by God.
By identifying God as the
Creator and motivator of all creation we become humble before
God's awesome majesty as
seen in the beautifully wonderful motions of
nature/reality.
All blessings flow through
nature/reality
from God to all life.
Those that have become spiritually corrupt are offered
redemption by the compassion found in the words of
Jesus, who calls us to
awaken from our
dreams of not life into the
reality of God's
compassion expressed to us through
nature and available to all who
diligently seek.
page 88
"Jesus'
mind seemed to master from the
beginning the
laws of nature and the
relation of man to his fellow in his
teachings or talks, he gives a
deeper insight, inspiring mutual
love and strengthening the common
trust of society.
Another plan Jesus has of setting
men right with the laws of nature: he
turns nature into a great law
book of illustrations, showing that
every bush is a flame, every rock a fountain
of water, every star a pillar of
fire, and every cloud the one that leads to
God.
Jesus makes all nature preach the doctrine of trust in the
divine
Fatherhood.
Jesus speaks of the lilies as pledges of
God's care, and points to the
birds as evidence of his watchfulness over all.
Who can measure the distance between God and
the flower of the field?
What connection is there between man and the
lily?
By such
illustrations
Jesus creates a
solicitude in man that seems to awe him into
reverence, and he becomes attracted toward
heavenly thought, and
feels that he is in the
presence of one that is
superior.
In this talk Jesus brings
one to feel he is very near the
presence of
God.
Jesus says how much more your
Father.
The plane is
one, though the intermediate points are immeasurably
distant.
Thus by
beginning with a
flower
Jesus reasons
upward to the absolute, and then descends and teaches lessons of
trust in a loving
Father. The lessons of
trust in God reassure
the anxious listener and create an appetite that
makes him long for more.
Jesus in
his talk brings all these illustrations
to make man feel his nearness to his kindred,
man, teaching also their
relation to and dependence upon
God.
Jesus teaches that man and the
flower and birds drink from the same fountain and are fed from
the same table.
Through Jesus, in
his teaching or talks, we learn
that God is Spirit, and God is
Father; and he says these are
the only two things that are essential for man to
know."
from The Archko Volume or the
Archeological Writings of Sanhedrim and Talmuds of the Jews Discovered by Drs.
McIntosh and Twyman in the Vatican Library
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