Loving Nature Naturally: 060819

"It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself."

~Jim Dodge

Meditations: "The Learn’d Astronomer" by Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

BY Walt Whitman

"When I heard the learn’d astronomer, 

When the proofs, the figures, 

were ranged in columns before me, 

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, 

to add, divide, and measure them, 

When I sitting heard the astronomer 

where he lectured with 

much applause in the lecture-room, 

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, 

Till rising and gliding out 

I wander’d off by myself, 

In the mystical moist night-air, 

and from time to time, 

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars."

~*~

I love this poem by Uncle Walt. 

It reminds me of the story of a father

teaching his son how to ride a bicycle.

The father first had his son 

memorize all the parts of a bike,

then made him draw pictures of the bike,

and  then made him write articles about the bike.
Strangely enough, the kid still couldn't ride a bike.

Or 
that time on the TV show, Friends

The way Phoebe taught Joey the guitar

By NOT touching it

:  )

We can memorize, quantify, and diagram Nature all we want

Scientifically study it up and down to the smallest detail

But to truly understand the nature of Nature

We must "wander off" and experience it for ourselves

What Uncle Walt calls a mystical, intuitive experience

His poem is a great statement
Illustrating the different between Knowledge and Wisdom

A good lesson for living, as well.

Thanks, Uncle Walt!

Naturism and Spirituality

Naturism is Naturally Spiritual

For me, being Naked is the best attire for 

when I pray to God and commune with Nature

No barriers - No hiding

It is the most physically pure state of being

With it comes a pure heart, pure mind, and pure spirit

Here's one of my favorite quotes on Naturism:

"To me being naked is more than just exposing one's body. Being truly naked involves the body as well as the heart, mind, and spirit. It is a communion....becoming one with ourselves, with our fellow human beings, with all of our environment and natural world, and with the universe itself. It is a re-connection to our most basic and primitive selves from which we have managed to leave behind through our evolution and progress. It is real, it is truth, it is genuine. It can be fun, sensual, and even erotic.....but it is so much more and goes so much deeper than that. It is acceptance in its purest form, and it is the casting off of not only our clothes.....but also the fears, anxieties, attitudes, and misconceptions, etc., that we have been trained and forced to carry. Being naked involves the body, mind, heart, and spirit." 

~Unknown

Parting Shot: 052019

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Let's Jump into our new week

Splashing in JOYFUL GRATITUDE!

Sending you Peace and Love

May all go well with you

((((HUGS))))

Meditations: "On Clothing" from 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran

Iris Bachman Photography

~*~

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, 

yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy 

you may find in them a harness and a chain.

Would that you could meet the sun and the wind 

with more of your skin and less of your raiment,

For the breath of life is in the sunlight 

and the hand of life is in the wind.

Some of you say, 

"It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear."

But shame was his loom, 

and the softening of the sinews was his thread.

And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.

Forget not that modesty is for a shield 

against the eye of the unclean.

And when the unclean shall be no more, 

what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?

And forget not that the earth delights 

to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran 

'On Clothes' from The Prophet (link)