You’re Not In Nature. You Are Nature 🌲
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
We treat nature like a weekend escape.
Something “out there” to visit. To hike through. To photograph.
But the ancients didn’t walk through the forest like tourists.
They belonged to it.
“The ancients knew we are nature, not separate observers.”
They didn’t separate “mind” from “mountain,” or “soul” from “soil.”
To them, the wind wasn’t just weather.
It was spirit.
It was voice.
It was memory.
And maybe, deep down, we know this too.
That’s why silence feels so different under trees than under ceilings.
That’s why heartbreak somehow feels less suffocating beside a river than inside a room.
It’s not poetic. It’s biological.
You are not watching nature.
You are nature, watching itself.
And forgetting this…
That’s the root of our modern madness.
That’s why we feel so disconnected.
Because when you cut yourself off from nature, you cut yourself off from your own source code.
You don’t just lose the trees.
You lose your rhythm.
You lose your place.
You lose the story that held you.
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No noise. Just truth.
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Today’s prompt is simple:
“Where do I feel most like myself without trying?”
Is it in the woods? Near water? Under the sky?
Then ask:
“What would it mean to treat those places not as escapes, but as homecomings?”
Then go.
Not to get something from nature.
But to remember you are it.
You are not a guest here.
You’re not just a body walking through a forest.
You are the forest.
You are breath and bone and dust and tide.
And the more you remember that,
The less fragmented you feel.
The healing you seek isn’t out there.
It’s around you.
It’s within you.
It always was.
Slow down.
Touch the ground.
Listen long enough, and the earth will call you by name.
Where do you go when you forget who you are?
Is it the ocean? A field? A trail? Your own backyard?
And what does that place remind you of?
Share your space. Share your grounding. Remind us all that the medicine didn’t disappear, it just got buried beneath concrete and convenience.
If you’re here, you’re part of something real, something that holds space for healing without the need to perform. I don’t take that lightly.
If this space feels like home.
If it holds your ache, your becoming, your breath.
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