nature: a focus, pt. 1

a blank page and i are enemies. mortally so - engaged in combat between fist and teeth. snyder sat on a mountain far out on the east coast. quiet - never mustered a word - and this mountain top was his self-inflicted god positioning. zen taught him to be still. life taught me to be still. therefore - in our own ways - we are similar. (i need my silence - this is why we are not compatible. our energies do not match and my levels are overly-dependent on times of complete quiet, whether by body or by mouth, and creative independence which denotes my every thought.) when i need placidity, i create my own. when i need coherence, i develop my own.
the most beautiful union is in that of music and environment; the way certain melodies intertwine effortlessly with the simplest things. the gentle swish of a branch is depicted by simply sliding one's fingers against guitar strings. it's not hard to see the underlying beauty in all of nature - all one must do, in theory, is return to their creative roots. we are born from this earth, from these roots, those leaves, that dirt. we are given to it in hopes that we are able to see our own inequities. we have a relationship with it - at times, an unheard union; at others, a fully-developed, gallantly-approached marriage which we scream at the top of our lungs.
it gives and it takes away. within itself, nature is it's own goddess (goddess because, like general female nature, it is both rational and temperamental - moody as she may be, as i am). it is every piece of art worth mentioning, every line of a poem quoted from a poet's mouth. save prestige: it is all of humility. save humility: it is all of prestige. all encompassing, all surpassing, all creating: this is the merciless yet contradictorily forgiving "God" the bible speaks of. and yet the image of this biblical "God" is tainted by the mortal presence and the mortal hand.
religion, like nature, is a personal experience - a journey which takes place within one's own limitations and one's own mind. quite possibly, this is where it should be left - an inner creation, to each his own, played by ear or by practice and repetition. never confined to meaningless, controlling rulings of time-restrained cultural beliefs. that one may live as one pleases, without harming the lives of others, should this not to be the general thesis of religion?
thus - everything is touching. religion, science, nature, mathematics, music, philosophy, psychology, music, art, sex, and all it's many genres and subdivisions and sub-sub points and roman numerals and bullet points. the only way one thing cannot touch another is due to the mental limitations and need for compartmentalization humans have placed on every aspect of this beautiful, non-restrictive earth.