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Delight in
Natural Nuggets

A Celestial Catapult Towards Self-Actualization

"Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing."

— Richard Rohr, American author & Franciscan friar (b. 1943)

✦ Your Sacred Game Guide — C · A · N ✦

C
Contemplate

Enter each tab as a sacred chamber. Read slowly and breathe deeply. Let each word settle in your spirit before moving to the next.

A
Absorb

Hover over each principle to illuminate it. Feel it resonate within. Claim one insight per chamber as your own daily sacred vow.

N
Nurture

Click Mark Chamber Visited to seal each visit with golden light. Complete all seven to fully awaken your Cosmic Consciousness.

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✦ The Seven Sacred Chambers of  P · R · E · M · I · U · M ✦

P — Prepare

Cultivate the capacity for natural delight

  1. Permanently wearing off everything in business, politics and conviviality leaves Nature gloriously intact — She endures beyond all human contrivance.
  2. Remaining after you have truly exhausted all else and found them wanting — that unfailing constant is the beauty of Nature herself.
  3. Entreat yourself to come forth into the light of things; let Nature be your most sovereign and most patient Teacher.
  4. Practically and purposively, simply know this one abiding truth: Nature never did betray the heart that truly loved Her.
  5. Aspire to listen to Nature — not in bare mindlessness, but to hear the subtle, sweet music of humanity woven into Her every breath.
  6. Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn a deep reverence for the miraculous, ever-renewing, creative capacity of Life.
  7. Effectively, Heaven and Earth are never ruthless — they never treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs to be carelessly discarded.

R — Realise

Your quest for natural delight is in your power

  1. Reveling in contemplation of beauty, your sleep shall be filled with sweet dreams, all healthy and profoundly blissful.
  2. Every point in life, the world's beauty is sufficient in itself — taking a photograph is almost always unnecessary and beside the point.
  3. A thing of true beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness only deepens with age; it shall never pass into decay.
  4. Lonely and divided is one who relies solely on perceptions based either on the merely sensuous or the merely intellectual.
  5. Illumining the ideal of the beautiful makes humans whole, because one's deepest nature simply and joyfully accords with it.
  6. A sense of beauty makes the world happy; one transcends all limits by experiencing its sovereign, liberating enchantment.
  7. The escape that beauty provides thrusts you into pure joy — like eyeing the autumn sunsets exquisitely and gloriously dying into night.

E — Empower

Propagate your deep-rooted freedom in Nature

  1. Exclusively an existential necessity — beauty in things exists precisely in the mind which consciously and lovingly contemplates it.
  2. Motivated by beauty, you shall become older than the days you have seen and the sacred breaths you had drawn in this Life.
  3. Pampered by beauty, you shall link your past with your present; the very breath of eternity shall throb tenderly behind you.
  4. Opulent with beauty, you shall ride in the mighty rhythm of Nature — swaying with the deep tides and the eternal, turning seasons.
  5. Willfully fit your every action into the great rhythm of seasons and the mysterious, organic requirements of all living Life.
  6. Earth itself appears as a mote in the sunbeam; we are conscious of one narrow luminous streak of wonder in the boundless abyss.
  7. Reel with wonder — from space to sky, from sea to every blade of grass, from the smallest insect to the crashing, singing ocean wave.

M — Mediate

Choose to embrace Nature's eternal prerogative

  1. Meritorious as it is, Nature admits no lie — She has always wielded more true power than any form of mere human education.
  2. Ever-anchored Nature is well in Her place, but She must not be forced to make our crooked human things falsely tidy.
  3. Disposed to reduce all things to a few principles, we are often led into grave error by a shallow and impatient love of simplicity.
  4. It is hard to summon rain over your cropland at your convenience — Nature respects not the smallness of your private intentions.
  5. Accepting Nature as it unfolds freely is what shall enable you to appreciate Her richly unfathomable and sovereign beauty.
  6. Truly, Nature is not easy to live with, if you impose upon Her a simplicity greater than the reality of what is truly there.
  7. Essentially, Nature is consonant and conformable with Herself — She uses as little as possible of anything: a perfect, sacred economy.

I — Indulge

Explore your unexplored ability to delight

  1. In Nature one thing simply happens after another — cause and effect have their dwelling only within the architecture of our own minds.
  2. Natural beauty is unconventional — it is shrill and sweet to you like the sudden, unbidden springing of an ancient, forgotten tune.
  3. Deeply interfused in your psyche is a sense sublime, whose very dwelling is the light of the softly, tenderly setting Sun.
  4. Unlimited beauty flows around the ocean, the living air, the boundless blue sky, and in the deepest reaches of the human psyche.
  5. Living beauty is a motion and a spirit that impels all thinking things — including every sacred object of all noble thought.
  6. Gain from existence by crafting an act of production that consciously mimics and lovingly enhances all of Nature's own organic processes.
  7. Engage yourself always to look for what needs to be done — after all, this is precisely how the universe itself designs and redesigns itself.

U — Utilise

Your potential for the compulsion of natural joy

  1. Usefulness of medicinal plants is immense — their active healing principles are manifold, exquisitely balanced, and beyond mere laboratory replication.
  2. The more you seek bodily health from foods in their basic, unprocessed, natural form, the more safe and whole you shall ever be.
  3. In Nature there are no rewards or punishments — only consequences. So let Nature unfold freely and observe without anxious judgment.
  4. Learn the patience of the wild that holds motionless for hours — the spider in its web, the patient, coiled snake awaiting Life.
  5. Initiate yourself into this solid, holy patience — for it belongs primarily to Life when it hunts its own living, sacred sustenance.
  6. Stimulated by beauty, you shall be like a body fully swayed to music — it shall be such a brightening, revelatory, transforming glance.
  7. Enthrall your entire being in the divinity of beauty — you shall be, at last, like the dancer wholly and joyfully infused in the dance itself.

M — Monitor

Guard the forces that sustain your natural will

  1. Make a sudden sally and sparkle out among the fern, as you bicker down a valley — thrill completely in Nature's wild spontaneity.
  2. Only cultivate a psyche of winter — regard with full attention the frost and the boughs of pine-trees crusted deeply with their pristine snow.
  3. Never pretend to understand the Universe; it is a great deal bigger than you are — seek always to remain genuinely, gratefully modest.
  4. Impulses from a springing plant teach you more about morality, good and evil, than all the sages humanity has ever assembled or produced.
  5. The careful observation of Nature is part of every true artist's and every true thinker's life — it enlarges both form and the reach of knowledge.
  6. One is kept fresh and vital, freed from rigidly pre-established formula, and fed by the ever-renewing, living springs of divine inspiration.
  7. Revel in anything natural, guard it from abuse and desecration, and you shall forever blossom in the infinite, benevolent beauty of Being.

Visit all seven chambers to awaken Cosmic Consciousness

✦ The Therapeutic Treaty with Thyself — S · U · M · M · A · R · Y ✦

A love for the beautiful has a refreshing, softening and enriching influence upon character which nothing else can supply. Therefore, an infinite satisfaction comes from beginning early in Life — and at any Age — to cultivate our finer qualities: to develop higher sentiments, purer tastes, and more delicate feelings.

  1. See clouds come floating into your Life, no longer to carry rain, but to add colour to your glorious sunset sky.
  2. Understand that everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it — a deep and loving concern is always needed.
  3. Meaningful beauty, whose therapeutic import is infinite, is derived from deep, sustained immersion into Nature herself.
  4. Most fantasies, as they enter into art, are sublimated from an escape from Life into far deeper ways of meeting it.
  5. Appreciation of art is vital, but of greater importance is the enjoyment of Nature — art alone can never replace living Life.
  6. Real value of art — as Freud believed — lies ultimately in its therapeutic use: in healing the divided, longing soul of humanity.
  7. Yes — it is by this sacred means that both the artist and the public reveal hidden conflicts and discharge accumulated tensions.
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"The observation of Nature is part of an artist's Life; it enlarges form and knowledge, and keeps one fresh — freed from working only by rigid, pre-established formula."

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