do you share anything in your nature with anything in nature?

Question

what is it and what do you find your shared nature to be?

Answer 1

I don't neccisarily share anythin with nature but i am native american so i am very in tune with the mother goddess and father sun. And the rest just falls in to place you know, kinda goes back to that listening with your soul thing.

Answer 2

Yes; I find that gardening - the sowing, tending and eventual harvest of crops - to be one of the most "grounding" and spiritual activities a person can do.

To work one's hands in the soil - Mother Earth - and assist with the natural nutrients she needs to help a plant grow, takes one down from any ivory tower to the very basics of existense and subsistence.

It connects me with the Earth, with my creator, and life in general, plus.....its just a wonderful activity on a warm and sunny day.

Answer 3

The world and I are One. I know this sounds like some crazy sort of mysticism, but if you are willing to take a slightly wild ride with me on my philosophical roller coaster, I will explain. Specifically to answer your question (although it is probably nothing like the answer you expected) I would say this: My nature – the very essence of what I am as a living being – is not bound by the confines of what we conventionally call my physical body. As a being in the world, my personal identity is grounded upon what mathematicians call a "non-linear dynamic system". This is just a fancy way of saying that I am composed of interconnected parts that interact in unpredictably complex ways. These interacting parts form complex patterns, and many of these patterns are what we commonly call my behavior and experiences as a living organism.

Now you may be wondering, what does this have to do with your question? Well, it's like this: The parts that constitute my existence include my environment. The red pen on my desk is not an object "out there" in a world that is completely independent of me. Rather, the pen and my physical body are part of a dynamic system that is characterized by a wide variety of complex patterns. Some of these patterns include the behavior of my body, the behavior of the pen (which, at the moment, is just laying there), as well as the various phenomenal characteristics of my experience. The "I" that most people believe is either limited to my brain activity (the most common scientific view), or else is actually a non-physical soul (the most common religious view), is actually neither. I am not my body, nor am I a non-physical soul. In my deepest essence I am actually Being Itself taking a perspective upon Itself. I seem to be limited to my body because that is the perspective that I am taking. The complex electrochemical activity of my brain constitutes the means by which Being takes a perspective upon Itself, which leads to the common misconception that I am limited to my brain, and the world is independent of me. But in reality I am Being Itself as It appears to Itself from the perspective that It experiences as "I".

Being is not an all-knowing God. Being is not entirely unlimited. Quite frankly, Being finds Itself thrown into existence without any special instructions on how to Be, nor any rational explanations of what it means to Be. So Being just does the best It can, and often has a tendency to confuse Itself. In taking multiple perspectives upon Itself, Being tends to forget that each perspective is really a perspective of Its Own Self. From each perspective, Being mistakenly imagines that it is isolated from all other perspectives, and isolated from the world that it perceives. But this isolation is an illusion. In reality Being is there at the center of every experience, and what It experiences is Its Own Being. The red pen on my desk is not an isolated object, rather, it is part of how Being appears to Itself when it becomes conscious of Itself. There is no "out there" out there, although there is an "other" of sorts. The "other" is what Being conceives Itself to be when It forgets Its true nature as the One. The "other" is among the many unpredictable patterns of experience that arise in the Self-organizing process of Being. In effect, the "other" is a creation of Being Itself; it is a product of Being's limited nature. Being has infinite potential, but reality at any moment is inherently limited, and this limitedness takes the experiential form of the "other".

So, you ask, do I share anything in my nature with anything in nature? Indeed, as Being Itself, I actually share my deep essence with all that I experience as other. I am a complex, dynamic system unfolding into intricate patterns that I, as Being Itself, cannot predict, and might never entirely understand.

Answer 4

I am multiple and have an affinity for the chaos of weather it seems to comfort me to have outside what I feel inside - especially unpredictable UK weather which seems to be constantly in change. I live by the sea and often walk the beach the swell of the sea especially a rough one seems to evoke something I recognise internally but cant name.

Answer 5

Yes Life or some call it the light force.

Answer 6

My horoscope says I'm a lion.
My Chinese horoscope says I'm a monkey.
My boss said I'm a lion, one of the unmanageable breed.
My wife says ... I don't want you to know what my wife says!

Answer 7

inability to communicate

Answer 8

My compassion.............with feral cats