We are Pine. We stand in glorious expansion, allowing life to be what it will around us, drinking in what life has to offer, welcoming each new sensation as sensation and interacting with all the world around us in a dance that is complex and beautiful.

Be like us. Allow yourselves to notice how your world is rich with opportunity and sensation. Every moment of your existence is filled with more than you could imagine. Open new doors. Allow yourself to greet life in all its wealth, openly. Enjoy, openly as we do. Know that your dance of interaction with the world around you is as complex and beautiful as our own. We are Pine. Be like us.

For some people, to look into the forest at night is to look into fear. Fear of the unknown, masked by darkness. Fear of getting lost and not finding the way home. Fear of dying. Fear of getting sick.

To allow yourself to take heart when you are lost in the forest is to give yourself the opportunity to allow the forest itself to nurture you, to nourish you, to comfort you. By losing yourself in your own fear and panic, you are more lost than being lost in the woods. Allow yourself to know, that, come what may, the greater part of who you are is infinitely safe - that the message in being lost may be *in being lost*. It may be in coming to terms with your own humanity and accepting your place in the world as a part of Nature.

So when you look into the forest and see our deep shadows, fear not for the darkness, or the unknown, or getting lost. Know that in these deep shadows you find comfort, companionship, nurturing, warmth and even friendship. With this knowledge, you are never lost.

When you are moved by our presence, we are in communion with each other. When the mere fact of our existence touches you, in a way that causes your heart to expand, you are speaking the same language that we speak. When you hold that expansion and open to include the other energies around you, you begin to get a glimpse of who you are, of your connection to us all and of your divinity.

Hold it, but not too tightly. Let it move and transform as it does, and watch how your own energies move and transform even when you think that the communion or the concept itself have left your grasp. We are Jack Pine. Be with us.

Walk with wonder, a sense of discovery, for around each corner is a different expression for you to notice, to appreciate. It's exquisite, the countless number of different expressions that you in your higher form and you, collectively as a group, as well as a single have created for yourself in physical life to notice, to use, to discover, to play with and to be one with.

Wonder what is around the next corner. What will it symbolize? What does it look like or feel like? When you open your heart to it, what energy seems to belong to it? What is it like? How does it resonate with you?

We are Pine Tree. Our energy is intricate, lacy, complex, while we stand straight and true. The energy moves off of us in blue waves. Come to us when you wish to remember that when treated with a feeling of wonder and discovery, the world holds untold surprises. We are Pine.

Marvel at the way the light filters through the leaves. Be awestruck by the pattern of wavelets on the water. Fill yourself with wonder at the complex pattern of moss on a rock, or the symmetry of a pine cone. Allow your joy to blend with the joy of the world around you. Meet it with interest and awareness and openness, and it reveals its secrets to you.

Each flower blooms brightly under the dust of a busy day. Each person shines luminously under the dust of a busy day. True colours may not be revealed until a shower has passed by, but they lie there underneath, ready to sparkle when the time is right.

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