Your words can be read, but they can also be felt on an energetic level that’s incredibly penetrating to the soul. Very grateful for this transmission.
“Modern humans have forgotten that we are not apart from Nature. We are Nature—an extension of its breath, its rhythms, its unbreakable will to create and sustain life.”
Ronit - this letter for me has been the most challenging. I love being in Nature, communing with Nature, and sometimes experience how studying my own brings me the deepest connection (love and belonging) I can ever imagine. In moments in my life I have felt how a Tree is made up of me and me of it - literally. In daily practice I experience my maladaptive behaviors, their roots, and sometimes how I can "fit" much better. In short spurts I have experienced my connection to the wind as if G-d is speaking to me, comforting me, or how just being with the mountains connects me to love, humility and what feels like all I need to know. YET, Nature is still separate from me. I do feel this spiritual and very biological/chemical connective void if I am really quiet, and also the hints that the void is an illusion.
I'm curious to learn more how I can cultivate my relationship to / with Nature.
I'm also curious to hear from other readers - what has been your journey in relationship with Nature? What has worked and not worked? Where your current edge may be in this journey?
Eric, beyond taking care of my houseplants, walks in the park, and the occasional trip to the arboretum or botanical gardens, I am removed from nature. I feel sad about this being that its constantly around me and I'm so caught up in my world that I disconnect, which is what Ronit named in the letter. I'm realizing that there also is a lack of curiosity and interest in nature because it's "just there". And spiritually, there's more of a connection to the elements for ancestral connective purposes. Overall, I'm realizing with your questions that nature becomes present when I slow down (maybe) and when I get out of the city.
“We live on a planet designed to sustain life—a planet that knows how to heal itself. Within its 4.5 billion years of evolutionary wisdom lies a blueprint—not just for survival, but for flourishing. If we can learn from its natural intelligence and adapt accordingly, we too can evolve in ways that support our longevity, our harmony with nature, and each other.”
This is the most hopeful, positive and baffling paragraph I’ve read in a long time. I recognize easily how dis-membered I am, in what dis-connected ways I’ve tried to manage myself in the world. A tree or my cat doesn’t have that problem. They are what they are. But because I am nature as well, the same must be true for me! The key to this freedom is humility, along with the courage and curiosity to re-member. Nothing feels more urgent, even though the vibrational field you summon here is one of profound peace. Only a superficial paradox. Thank you for this re-minder, Ronit! Right now, I look with different eyes at the world.
Every current human should read this and re-member who they are on the planet. By following this wise and studied guidance we would have a better connection to the planet, each other and ourselves. Most people are running on auto-pilot with no sense of self or what it truly means to be alive. One day these words will be heeded. Hopefully, soon enough.
Wow, there is a lot here... I'm having a challenging and humbling time wrapping my head around the initial statements within the first couple paragraphs alone. Earth is in me, we once held an intrinsic relationship with the natural world, however in pursuit of mastery, we mistook our tools for wisdom = perpetuating disconnection to nature.
I will need to sit with this letter more and return. So intriguing!
Yes Dazia, there is a lot in this one. Would love to hear what comes up after you sit with the letter for a while. I will wait to post the next letter to create some space between this one and the next.
Gradually bringing myself back to absorb these letters… being humble and honest about where I am, where I am starting, where you find me this morning, as you start with presencing in your letter also. There’s so much here and I know I struggle to feel an embodied connection to my natural environment around me. My access point is connection to people, my ability to feel that tether between us, between me and people I love…it’s a humble starting point. But a starting access point for me to attempt to slow down and feel into a wider connection to more around me. Intellectually, that’s very easy to understand. But spiritually, embodied, in a way my body and cells naturally carry that knowledge with me and act from that knowledge…that is still a far reach for me.
As a lover of ecology, evolution and biological systems, your skillful ability to translate and weave the parallels between the natural world that we can see and observe around us and our own inner nature speaks directly to my heart. The teachings captured in this letter have expanded the way I relate to myself, others and the natural world around me. Just like we can study the patterns and conditions of beehives, ant colonies, or the solar system, we must study our inner and social ecologies — our own emotional and perceptional systems, our family systems, our organizational and communal systems! You have helped me discover what I am passion about - the fascinatingly hidden and nuanced dynamics of our own inner and interpersonal behaviors.
This letter helped me see how much we’ve forgotten our connection to nature and how that disconnection affects everything, including how we see ourselves and relate to others.
I recognized myself in the examples you gave of childhood adaptations becoming invisible patterns in adult life. It made me reflect on how many of my own reactions and choices have been shaped by early strategies I no longer need, but still carry.
Your words are a gentle but firm invitation to remember what we’ve forgotten: that we are nature, and that healing begins not with control, but with reconnection, to the Earth, to our bodies, and to the truth inside us.
Your words can be read, but they can also be felt on an energetic level that’s incredibly penetrating to the soul. Very grateful for this transmission.
“Modern humans have forgotten that we are not apart from Nature. We are Nature—an extension of its breath, its rhythms, its unbreakable will to create and sustain life.”
Ronit - this letter for me has been the most challenging. I love being in Nature, communing with Nature, and sometimes experience how studying my own brings me the deepest connection (love and belonging) I can ever imagine. In moments in my life I have felt how a Tree is made up of me and me of it - literally. In daily practice I experience my maladaptive behaviors, their roots, and sometimes how I can "fit" much better. In short spurts I have experienced my connection to the wind as if G-d is speaking to me, comforting me, or how just being with the mountains connects me to love, humility and what feels like all I need to know. YET, Nature is still separate from me. I do feel this spiritual and very biological/chemical connective void if I am really quiet, and also the hints that the void is an illusion.
I'm curious to learn more how I can cultivate my relationship to / with Nature.
I'm also curious to hear from other readers - what has been your journey in relationship with Nature? What has worked and not worked? Where your current edge may be in this journey?
Eric, beyond taking care of my houseplants, walks in the park, and the occasional trip to the arboretum or botanical gardens, I am removed from nature. I feel sad about this being that its constantly around me and I'm so caught up in my world that I disconnect, which is what Ronit named in the letter. I'm realizing that there also is a lack of curiosity and interest in nature because it's "just there". And spiritually, there's more of a connection to the elements for ancestral connective purposes. Overall, I'm realizing with your questions that nature becomes present when I slow down (maybe) and when I get out of the city.
“We live on a planet designed to sustain life—a planet that knows how to heal itself. Within its 4.5 billion years of evolutionary wisdom lies a blueprint—not just for survival, but for flourishing. If we can learn from its natural intelligence and adapt accordingly, we too can evolve in ways that support our longevity, our harmony with nature, and each other.”
This is the most hopeful, positive and baffling paragraph I’ve read in a long time. I recognize easily how dis-membered I am, in what dis-connected ways I’ve tried to manage myself in the world. A tree or my cat doesn’t have that problem. They are what they are. But because I am nature as well, the same must be true for me! The key to this freedom is humility, along with the courage and curiosity to re-member. Nothing feels more urgent, even though the vibrational field you summon here is one of profound peace. Only a superficial paradox. Thank you for this re-minder, Ronit! Right now, I look with different eyes at the world.
Every current human should read this and re-member who they are on the planet. By following this wise and studied guidance we would have a better connection to the planet, each other and ourselves. Most people are running on auto-pilot with no sense of self or what it truly means to be alive. One day these words will be heeded. Hopefully, soon enough.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
Receiving your acknowledgment and wisdom Lynnda~
Lynnda! I hope you are well! Sending a hug.
To your message I can say, "From your lips to G-d's ears" 🙏.
I'd love to continue to hear from you in these comments - you have a lot of wisdom to share!
Wow, there is a lot here... I'm having a challenging and humbling time wrapping my head around the initial statements within the first couple paragraphs alone. Earth is in me, we once held an intrinsic relationship with the natural world, however in pursuit of mastery, we mistook our tools for wisdom = perpetuating disconnection to nature.
I will need to sit with this letter more and return. So intriguing!
Yes Dazia, there is a lot in this one. Would love to hear what comes up after you sit with the letter for a while. I will wait to post the next letter to create some space between this one and the next.
Gradually bringing myself back to absorb these letters… being humble and honest about where I am, where I am starting, where you find me this morning, as you start with presencing in your letter also. There’s so much here and I know I struggle to feel an embodied connection to my natural environment around me. My access point is connection to people, my ability to feel that tether between us, between me and people I love…it’s a humble starting point. But a starting access point for me to attempt to slow down and feel into a wider connection to more around me. Intellectually, that’s very easy to understand. But spiritually, embodied, in a way my body and cells naturally carry that knowledge with me and act from that knowledge…that is still a far reach for me.
As a lover of ecology, evolution and biological systems, your skillful ability to translate and weave the parallels between the natural world that we can see and observe around us and our own inner nature speaks directly to my heart. The teachings captured in this letter have expanded the way I relate to myself, others and the natural world around me. Just like we can study the patterns and conditions of beehives, ant colonies, or the solar system, we must study our inner and social ecologies — our own emotional and perceptional systems, our family systems, our organizational and communal systems! You have helped me discover what I am passion about - the fascinatingly hidden and nuanced dynamics of our own inner and interpersonal behaviors.
This letter helped me see how much we’ve forgotten our connection to nature and how that disconnection affects everything, including how we see ourselves and relate to others.
I recognized myself in the examples you gave of childhood adaptations becoming invisible patterns in adult life. It made me reflect on how many of my own reactions and choices have been shaped by early strategies I no longer need, but still carry.
Your words are a gentle but firm invitation to remember what we’ve forgotten: that we are nature, and that healing begins not with control, but with reconnection, to the Earth, to our bodies, and to the truth inside us.