You can open to the energies of Nature at any place or at any time. When you are open to us, you can hear us at any place or any time. You can feel us. You can sense us. You can communicate with us. So stop now and then, no matter where you are, no matter what time. Invite us to be with you and we will be there. Open your energies to allow us in and you will feel the essence of our natures. We are Poplar. Stop often and let us be with you.

Your thoughts drift like clouds in the sky, lingering for only a moment for you to identify them before they change shape and move on to become something else. Your life is like your thoughts. It has taken shape for only a moment and you try to capture it before it changes and moves on. It is not entirely possible, to capture it in that moment; to identify it. For it changes even as you watch. See your thoughts, then, not as things, but as actions. See yourself not as a noun but a verb. Watch yourself and your thoughts as you watch the clouds, understanding that its nature is its activity. It is the movement of itself that defines itself. See it as pleasant or unpleasant, understanding that in the next moment it is changed.

Within each snapshot of your life lie the seeds to your awakening. Each moment holds within it, an opportunity for you to glimpse eternity and your place within it. Each breath you take brings you into a new eternity. Each breath you let out releases you from that eternity and makes way for the next. Stop, then, in the stillness of an early morning and take a mental snapshot of a moment. Do not search for anything. Do not look for clues. Just rest there in that moment and know that you are touching eternity. It will then begin to reveal itself bit by bit in odd moments through your day. Do this often and you begin to live who you are. We are Poplar.

Within our branches live many aspects of existence: leaves that seem perfect and leaves that are eaten, branches that rise in strength and beauty and branches that are stunted and malformed. Parts of us thrive. Parts of us are dying and decaying. All are valid inclusions into this picture of who we are. See yourselves the same way. Parts of you include different aspects of your individual humanity. Parts of the world include different types of humanity. All are valid. All are required to create the picture that exists in the world as it is. Come to make friends with this world as it exists, as you make friends with us. By realizing the validity of all aspects of your being, you open to greater expression. We are Poplar. See yourselves in us.

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