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December 4, 2014 By W. Lee Baker

Natural Art – Life As An Art

Traveling naturally will get you to new places and experiences of a wider world.

Traveling naturally will get you to new places and experiences of a wider world.

The Natural Art of Life

I have an idea, that the natural art we love is also a part of the art of life. This idea is one that is alive in a lot of people. It can be a good idea, check it out.

At some point along the way to growing up, we find that we have choices to make which can make a difference in what we get out of life. Choose chocolate ice cream, and it tastes like chocolate. Choose chocolate all the time, and you will never know what anyone means by Cherry Garcia, for example.

Certain people and events help define us. We all had parents who did a lot of the choosing of events, and that time is long past. There is the point in the natural art of life when one might have a midlife examination, or as someone once sang “Is that all there is?”. The map we have is where we have been. We principally put ourselves right there on that map, and we may need a bit of adjustment to see new horizons.

Choices of this Natural Art

We can begin to grasp life as an open story or as a natural art, where there are open choices, more than on the current menu, one might just have to go to a different diner to see new choices. Ah, but why take the risk? With new experiences, we become worldly, of the world of ourselves, what we can enjoy newly, and wise in ways of knowing about more places on the map of ourselves.

So there is doing the safe and same, over and over until the dust settles on our bones. There is also the trying new flavors of ice cream or life, new ideas and and new adventures. Some will be great and some will not work out. You will be wiser for the knowing. In this knowing, you will have new things you like, and possibly love, and you will have the experience our own life muscle, in the natural art of living.

Other resources

The map of the Natural Art of Life

Ways of this natural art

Inspiring sources

 

Filed Under: Creativity, Dating and the Romantic Life, Spirituality

MEDITATIONS

John Burroughs

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs
Rumi

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi
Ray Stevens - 1939

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939
Rainer Maria Rilke

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946
Dalai Lama

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama
Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse
Native American

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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