I am now a Zen practitioner.

[SunlitDoves]

"The day came when Eragon went to the glade beyond Oromis's hut, seated himself on the polished white stump in the center of the mossy hollow, and- when he opened his mind to observe the creatures around him-sensed not just the birds, beasts, and insects but also the plants and the forest.
The plants possessed a different type of consciousness than animals; slow, deliberate, and decentralized , but in their own way just as cognizant of their" surroundings as Eragon himself was. The faint pulse of the plants' awareness bathed the galaxy of stars that wheeled behind his eyes- each bright spark representing a life in a soft, omnipresent glow. Even the most barren soil teemed with organisms, the land itself was alive and sentient.
Intelligent life, he concluded, existed everywhere.
As Eragon immersed himself in the thoughts and feelings of the beings around him, he was able to attain a state of inner peace so profound that, during that time, he ceased to exist as an individual. He allowed himself to become a nonentity, a void, a receptacle for the voices of the world. Nothing escaped his attention, for his attention was focused on nothing.
He was the forest and its inhabitants." -Eldest