Daily Meditation: Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Nature - how to repay it for everything it gives us

04/09/2024

We owe everything to nature: all the elements that form our bodies, all that sustains us – water, food, air to breathe, the light and heat of the sun – all the materials for our clothes, houses, tools, and so on – everything. Human beings take great pride in their ingenuity, but where do they get all the materials used to make their instruments, appliances, and even their works of art? From nature. Nature provides us with everything. But the details of what we take are noted somewhere. We have incurred these debts with nature, and we must settle them. How can we do so? With a payment called respect, gratitude, love, and the willingness to study everything written in the great book of nature. Paying means to give something in exchange, and we can do this with all that is good in our hearts, our intelligence, our souls and spirits. We are limited on the physical plane, and nature does not insist that we return all the food, water or air we have taken. But on the spiritual plane our possibilities are infinite, and it is on that level that we can repay a hundredfold all that nature has given us.*