The reason you feel comfortable inside of nature is its “openness.” Nature doesn’t insist that any one thing be a certain way, but allows each individual component to shine with its own unique beauty.
It takes innumerable exchanges with the energy of the sun, the energy of the moon, and the energy of the wind for one tree to reach the point of being beautifully grown. Countless invisible energies nurture the tree, and the tree opens itself wide to all of them. This is true not only for this tree, but for the birds, the flowers, and everything in nature as well.
Only humans close themselves off, building walls, drawing boundaries, and getting lost inside of themselves. If you forget where your life comes from, you forget how to have meaningful interactions and lose your connection to the origin. Then you develop the misconception that you are incomplete, or that you lack something and are a lonely creature. That’s what gets people stuck on jealousy, competition, possession, and control.
Just as the sun and moon hang in the sky, the origin of humans is also empty space. With empty space as a backdrop, everything in the universe is connected as one and has interactions within that connection. When we’re connected with the origin, we become the center of the universe.
Standing at the center with an awareness of this greater, interconnected whole, our minds open and the senses of the cells in our whole bodies awaken. Here, you can embrace everything, interact with everything, and have that kind of open love. That’s when you become complete.