Today’s Practice: Rest in Nature

Whenever you bring your attention to anything in nature, you step out of the prison of conceptualized thinking and participate in the state of connectedness with Being, in which everything natural still exists.

To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an animal does not mean to think about it, but simply to perceive it—to hold it in your awareness.

Something of its essence then transmits itself to you. You can sense how still it is, and in doing so the same stillness arises within you. You sense how deeply it rests in Being—completely at one with what it is and where it is. In realizing this, you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

—Eckhart Tolle