A Vast and Subtle Music

"All nature is a vast and subtle music..." (NCU 3:8:5)

The Way of Simplicity is a beautiful one that reminds us of the importance of living in harmony with the planet we live on. Though many of us live in a modernized world that lets us ignore the seasons and rhythms of the earth in the way we eat and often in the way we dress, it is so important for us to remember more natural ways that will relieve the stress we place on our planet.

"Let your ways be gentle as the milk-white dove, and graceful as the gliding of the swallow. For there are ways and rhythms in the course of life, of day and night, of seasons and the moon, by which all life, all thought, all work are governed, and these movements are the breath of the Divine, reflected in the highest spheres and every living thing.
All nature is a vast and subtle music to which the innocent soul is closely attuned. The profane attempts to sever themselves from this music, making new laws of gain and self-advantage against the law of universal love. Honour in all things the times and the seasons, keeping fast in times of fast with diligence and care; rejoicing in times of feast with generous outpouring. No tree may blossom out of season, nor any flower greet springtime with austerity, likewise a maid lacking inward control is broken from the rhythm." Way of Simplicity, verses 2-8.