Being In Nature

"My aunt, I had an old aunt, and I think the first time I really tuned into it, she was really old. She would take me to the grocery store, and we would pick out fruit, like watermelon or melons, and she would have me smell it. Slowly and surely, you would be able to get to the fruit and smell which one had the sweetest taste. That's source. There's source. There's vitality. She would say, smell this, smell that. You develop your sense of smell, your sense of connection to the Earth. You sense the time, you hear the wind. You start with nature, and then suddenly, you feel this vitality inside of you. You turn off your mind, and the more you turn off your mind and listen to these internal things around us, the more it comes to you."