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when I fall in love with IT all over again:</p><ul><li>The moments when sun rays beam like magic light-lines through the forest canopy, making air visible.</li><li>The magic beauty of the breaking weave.</li><li>The way fire can look like water, flowing along the logs, caressing the wood.</li><li>The exquisiteness of white-rosy cherry blossoms.</li><li>The never-ending love story between bees and flowers, the never-ending love of dogs, the morning choir of birds and … the dolphins that come to the shore just to catch some waves and have fun.</li><li>The sound of leaves dancing in the wind in the crowns of their trees.</li></ul><p id="0e56">However, my best time for falling in love with life again is a new day dawning! I find it immensely beautiful to witness a new day birthing itself out of the dark night …! It’s with the finest poetry that the hours between dark and light speak of a fresh day emerging out of the dark folds of the night. Slight, barely visible hues of light gently penetrate the dark, diffusing the energies of the night, so gently, so slowly. It’s exquisite and, to me, it is sacred to witness the transition between night and day.</p><blockquote id="f5c3"><p>Each morning, when the sun appears yet again on the horizon, so dependable, it is not only the beginning of a new day, it is also the renewal of a vow: life saying yes to life, to itself, once again. The sun, so far without fail, renews its commitment to life, every day, showing up each morning, making life on earth possible. Every morning, there’s a birth and a wedding — happening at once.</p></blockquote><h2 id="7da5">Loving life and nature taught me to love myself!</h2><p id="100c">It’s in nature where I feel at home. It’s in nature where I always feel I belong. It’s in nature where, to me, everything makes sense. And it is through my love for creation, for nature, that I learned to love myself.</p><p id="5ac4">For parts of my life, I was walking with this strange, twisted, dark ‘knowing’ that I was ‘wrong’ and not lovable. For almost two decades, self-hate, self-abuse and self-loathing were eating m

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e up from the inside. A hard, ugly and lonely phase of my life.</p><p id="139a">There were many practices and ‘things’ that helped me heal. The most significant one was my love for nature:</p><p id="e5d8">One day, outdoors, spending time in the arms of my beloved nature, it suddenly dawned on me … that I AM life, that I AM nature! That, just like the tree, the flower, the wave, the dolphin and the earthworm, I too, am made of the same ‘stuff’, I too am nature. I am exactly the same ‘thing’ — manifest as a different expression of Life, of Creation, that ‘thing’ I love more than words can say.</p><p id="0845" type="7">Following that, I realized that if I am Life, an intrinsic part of nature, then, surely, I too am lovable …!</p><p id="9b96">WOW — I must say, this thought rippled through my entire being like a revolution taking over a whole country! It is hard to describe these moments and days, but they literally changed my life, just like a revolution can change the course of history.</p><p id="15e6">Almost giggling to myself, I thought: who was I to say that creation made a mistake when creating me, that I am wrong and not lovable?! That’s like me saying ‘God’ (Life, Creation) is flawed, made a mistake and does not know what It is doing …!</p><blockquote id="cb2d"><p>With these insights, a new phase of my life started. Since then I learned to truly see the beauty of who I am, just like I see the beauty in the exquisite flower petal with all its detailed colourful beauty. It is the same.</p></blockquote><p id="a392">I am as beautiful … I wouldn’t have thought this to be possible: me seeing myself as beautiful and magical as life and nature, and I will forever be grateful to nature for showing me this and to myself for receiving it: this truth that I am innately beautiful and lovable, just like all life on earth.</p><p id="eb7c">When I started walking here on earth, I could only love nature, outside myself. Now, I have learned to love myself, my own nature, inside myself.</p><p id="ce96">I am forever grateful.</p><p id="3819">Thank you, Life. I love you!</p></article></body>

Life — the Love of My Life

How Loving Life Taught Me to Love Myself

by Moonzigg on Pixabay

I did not always love myself. What I’ve always loved deeply is creation, mother nature, and all natural beauty of this earth! Then, one day, I realized that this is one and the same — me and that which I love so much …

As long as I can remember, my heart has been overflowing with this endless river of love for Life in all its forms. It’s the deepest love I’ve known — my love for Creation. It truly is the Love of my Life!

I adore and love the countless expressions of Life so much: the magical, glittering dew drop on a petal, the moving art-patterns of clouds in the sky, the boundless magnificence of trees, the cute patterns of the furry, spongy moss in among the rocks in the forest, the pure magic of butterflies, sun shining through the intricate spider web, the glow of warm love in a person’s genuine smile, …

The beauty of creation is endless and behind all its beauty is only one thing — Love. It couldn’t be this immensely beautiful, bringing me to tears and leaving me speechless if it was not Love that created it, if it was not Love expressing itself.

It is Love that fills our tears and it is Love that knows no words.

The magnificence and love of nature touch me deeply! I cannot get used to its unspeakable beauty, its unmet intelligence, exquisiteness, creativity and its attention to finest detail — like the tiny coloured dot in the middle of the flower petal. It gets under my skin. It penetrates my very being, filling me with … that for which I have no words.

Life, Earth, Nature: it is the Love of my Life. It also is what keeps me sane in a pretty insane (human) world and it is the best reason I know to be here on earth.

There are countless moments when I fall in love with IT all over again:

  • The moments when sun rays beam like magic light-lines through the forest canopy, making air visible.
  • The magic beauty of the breaking weave.
  • The way fire can look like water, flowing along the logs, caressing the wood.
  • The exquisiteness of white-rosy cherry blossoms.
  • The never-ending love story between bees and flowers, the never-ending love of dogs, the morning choir of birds and … the dolphins that come to the shore just to catch some waves and have fun.
  • The sound of leaves dancing in the wind in the crowns of their trees.

However, my best time for falling in love with life again is a new day dawning! I find it immensely beautiful to witness a new day birthing itself out of the dark night …! It’s with the finest poetry that the hours between dark and light speak of a fresh day emerging out of the dark folds of the night. Slight, barely visible hues of light gently penetrate the dark, diffusing the energies of the night, so gently, so slowly. It’s exquisite and, to me, it is sacred to witness the transition between night and day.

Each morning, when the sun appears yet again on the horizon, so dependable, it is not only the beginning of a new day, it is also the renewal of a vow: life saying yes to life, to itself, once again. The sun, so far without fail, renews its commitment to life, every day, showing up each morning, making life on earth possible. Every morning, there’s a birth and a wedding — happening at once.

Loving life and nature taught me to love myself!

It’s in nature where I feel at home. It’s in nature where I always feel I belong. It’s in nature where, to me, everything makes sense. And it is through my love for creation, for nature, that I learned to love myself.

For parts of my life, I was walking with this strange, twisted, dark ‘knowing’ that I was ‘wrong’ and not lovable. For almost two decades, self-hate, self-abuse and self-loathing were eating me up from the inside. A hard, ugly and lonely phase of my life.

There were many practices and ‘things’ that helped me heal. The most significant one was my love for nature:

One day, outdoors, spending time in the arms of my beloved nature, it suddenly dawned on me … that I AM life, that I AM nature! That, just like the tree, the flower, the wave, the dolphin and the earthworm, I too, am made of the same ‘stuff’, I too am nature. I am exactly the same ‘thing’ — manifest as a different expression of Life, of Creation, that ‘thing’ I love more than words can say.

Following that, I realized that if I am Life, an intrinsic part of nature, then, surely, I too am lovable …!

WOW — I must say, this thought rippled through my entire being like a revolution taking over a whole country! It is hard to describe these moments and days, but they literally changed my life, just like a revolution can change the course of history.

Almost giggling to myself, I thought: who was I to say that creation made a mistake when creating me, that I am wrong and not lovable?! That’s like me saying ‘God’ (Life, Creation) is flawed, made a mistake and does not know what It is doing …!

With these insights, a new phase of my life started. Since then I learned to truly see the beauty of who I am, just like I see the beauty in the exquisite flower petal with all its detailed colourful beauty. It is the same.

I am as beautiful … I wouldn’t have thought this to be possible: me seeing myself as beautiful and magical as life and nature, and I will forever be grateful to nature for showing me this and to myself for receiving it: this truth that I am innately beautiful and lovable, just like all life on earth.

When I started walking here on earth, I could only love nature, outside myself. Now, I have learned to love myself, my own nature, inside myself.

I am forever grateful.

Thank you, Life. I love you!

Self Love
Nature
Life Lessons
Love
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