The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.~John Muir
When things get hectic or mundane, the wilderness is always welcoming your name. Take some time to enter the infinite possibilities, take some time spent within the woods. Stepping into the Canvas…enjoying all the Universe has to offer…
I think that the wilderness is a metaphor for so many things that can help us live a rich life that can explore the vistas open to us. I, too, love the wildernesses, and even the small forests that seem to spring up everywhere.
In the forest, I can feel so connected to life and grounded. I see life in its many, many variations and can just feel that I, too, am a natural part of it. In the forest, the words ‘man-made” take on a meaning that tells me that what I do brings as much value to the Universe as the birds singing in the trees or the forests around me.
In the forest, I realize just how generative life it, seeing that man can clear a forest, but left alone for but a few years, the earth simply returns to its natural ways, bringing back the trees, other plants and animals that are simply a part of a grand, whole design.
In the wilderness of the forest, I can sometimes find my own wild, daring to become a man that is as grand as a tree, daring to imagine living a life different from the one I am living and just soaking in the wild, untamed and untameable nature surrounds me.
Maybe most important of all, though, is that in that forest, I can simply see with my eyes that we live in a Universe of infinite possibilities. The birds of the forest may have their habitual ways, but they can fly anywhere they choose, seeking food, families, solitude or the company of other birds, all in a moment that exists only for itself. In the forest, it is just easier to see that in my own life.
The deer may often walk the same deer paths, but they, too, are free to roam the forest, and often do. As I look at the path through the forest, I can see easily that I can simply step off that path into any adventure that I choose to have, a true forest of infinite possibilities. In that moment, I can look to my own life and see how many things are possible for me, looking at the infinite choices I have in my very real life and somehow knowing that there is an infinity more available in my life, bounded only by the borders and fences of my own imagination. In seeing the realness of that infinity in the forest, I can see it, too, in my own life and just know that I can do and be far more than I ever once would have imagined.
It will soon be spring and I look forward to the rebirth of the hemisphere as the earth again awakens from her needed winter sleep.