Do forests hold spiritual value for you,or the wind in the trees?

Question

Does nature stir the soul / spirit

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Answer 1

When I visit a forest...I am free from the human drama.....

free from myself.....

When I am one with the forest I see clearly, sing sweetly, and dance like deer run....

does this speak of what you sense??

oh the Spirit's dance...like a breeze or a hurricane, all in due time.....the trees tremble and blush in the tickle of the rush.....

Answer 2

I have long suspected that the trees act as antennae. I got this suspicion from observing horses standing under trees year round, even in winter when there were no leaves to provide shelter or shade. They seemed in a trance at first and then I got the idea that they were listening to something like music. Also the area around trees contains more oxygen due to the exchange process called photosynthasis. Both of the above and maybe more can have have an effect on the working of our brains including those involved with spirituality.

Answer 3

Yes!!! Being close to nature, feeling at peace with mother earth... these things are so important to me.

I feel calmest, most 'true' and real, when I'm out on a trail ride- just me & my horse; we walk through woods and rivers and fields, we hear birds and deer.... and there is no sign of civilization out there.... We are just calm and relaxed!

I've never understood why people feel the need to build churches (etc) to honor their god. How about going outside and being in aww of that which their god created!!? Be reverent for the trees and birds and everything nature holds- for it is the most pure representation of spiritualism.

Hug a tree and you are hugging god.

Answer 4

The Majesty of a giant tree takes my breath away! I stand beneath them, in awe...I even talk to them! I think they hear me, too! They silently smile.

We visit the Redwoods, occasionally, and there is no church on earth as sacred!

I have asked my family to scatter my ashes under a giant tree. Maybe my ashes will have some nutritional value in them. =) I will grow with the tree and when the wind blows, there I will be scurrying along the forest floor.

Answer 5

Nature is the God that I recognize: Life
The same God that is what I see in another's eyes
is the God that is on the adventure of lifting leafy branches to the sun
The same God that is all the living atoms in the soil
I know that what I recognize as God is greater than the sums of all the material
but when I am able to go into the forest and Be
without all the artificial altered overlay of 'stuff' that so many think of as the real world material and culturally
it feeds me
and that shows me again that which I myself am
and encourages me to continue in the cleansing
of my own artificial overlay alterations
that rob me of so much of my dreamer as days unfold past my bed
In the Forest it is more as if I am in Gods bed
walking in it's living dreamer

Answer 6

Since I hiked a portion of the Appalachian Trail as a teenager, I have felt that Nature was my church. I could never "hear or feel" God in church, but outside, looking over those mountains for miles and miles, I felt one with God. I don't really have a definition for this God, and it doesn't fit the patriarchal one of a He, Father, King, or any of that. It is a sense; something beyond words. And many times since that hike, I have felt that presence while walking in Nature.

Answer 7

A monk asked Chao-chou, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West?”

Chao-chou said, “The oak tree in the courtyard.”


[A Zen master made this waka poem as a commentary to the preceding:]

Nothing whatsoever to say:
This singing of the pine trees,
Answering without being asked.
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Answer 8

Yes, they do for me personally. I can't speak for anyone else. To feel at ease with nature, to feel as if one with what surrounds you, I've not found any greater peace. The calmness one can obtain by simply sitting under a tree, closing their eyes, and listening to the world surrounding them is simply amazing.

Answer 9

There are times when something strikes me as just perfect. I walking to my truck today and the temperature was just right, and the breeze was just right and I closed my eyes and felt completly centered. The world is full of moments and places like this if you're opened to feeling it.

Answer 10

Completely.. the forest and the river are church for me.. the wind, the birds, the frogs and the crickets are the choir.
It is more valuable to me spiritually than words can express.