Eckhart Tolle says real connection with nature means looking at something like a flower with full attention, without naming or labeling it. When you observe without concepts, as if for the first time, you move beyond thinking and into presence.
To really connect with nature, you have to be there fully. You have to bring an alertness to it, an alertness to your sense perceptions. So when you look at a flower, for example, you really look, give it your fullest attention, and let go of any desire to name it, to conceptualize it. So look at it in an innocent way. As if you had just arrived here on this planet and you're looking at it for the first time, to go, and you don't even know that it's got— that it's a flower, because even to say a flower is a mental concept. So in order to be really in nature and connect with nature at a deeper level, you have to go beyond conceptualization.
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