The ability to connect with nature in a real awake sense can bring about great joy.

Fortunately, I have experienced enough difficulty to become aware of this very special awareness of "being in" the surroundings.

Since then, I enjoy reconnecting with this "being in it all". I can use it again when things get difficult or for simply feeling a sense of joy, seriously focus or achievements that matter to me.

I think little children live in this state all the time because they naturally develop within this. This is how they grow.
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After experiencing this real connectedness, I was curious what terms I could use to describe it and searched online what others have expressed about it.

Besides descriptions of being in the flow, in the zone, Oneness, gods, mythical spirits, etc, one search result that came up was the poem "Tao Te Ching" by the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, written some 2500+ years ago. 

This resonated with me and the feeling of being it it all.
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The bottom line of this poem is to remind people to live life with simplicity, patience and compassion. 

Tao Te Ching
Verse 67:
"I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
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Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
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Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
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Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
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("In Harmony with the Tao" by Francis Pring-Mill
based on translation of Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell)
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