I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys, plains, That there are trees, flowers, weeds, That there are rivers and stones, But there is not a whole these belong to, That a real and true wholeness Is a sickness of our ideas.
Tags: wholeness, understanding, truth, pantheism, paganism, nature, meaning, it-is-what-it-is, ideas, existence

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If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow. If that’s its time, when else should it come? I like it that everything is real and everything is right; And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it. And so, if I die now, I die peacefully Because everything is real and everything is right.
Tags: truth, tranquility, spring, peaceful, pantheism, paganism, nature, meaning, life, it-is-what-it-is, god, death, beauty, alright
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
Tags: truth, tranquility, present, past, pantheism, paganism, nature, meaning, love, life, it-is-what-it-is, god, future, clarity, acceptance
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.
Tags: thinking, sensuality, philosophy, paganism, nature-of-love, nature, innocence
Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.
Tags: universe, thinking, stars, seeing, reality, pantheism, paganism, nightfall, nature, it-is-what-it-is, god, feeling, cosmos, concreteness, clarity
It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itself In its way of existing.
Tags: soul, seeing, reality, philosophy, paganis, nature, meaning, mankind, life, it-is-what-it-is, gods, existence, cosmos, clarity
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