I have often thought deeply about what it means to live according to nature. I've had many chances to understand what that kind of life looks like. The gods have given me suggestions, help, and inspiration. Nothing stopped me from starting to live this way long ago. Even now, I'm still not living that life fully. The only reason is my own fault — I haven't paid attention to the inner movements and hints, even the clear instructions, that the gods have been giving me.
That I have had occasion often and effectually to consider and meditate with myself, concerning that life which is according to nature, what the nature and manner of it is: so that as for the gods and such suggestions, helps and inspirations, as might be expected from them, nothing did hinder, but that I might have begun long before to live according to nature; or that even now that I was not yet partaker and in present possession of that life, that I myself (in that I did not observe those inward motions, and suggestions, yea and almost plain and apparent instructions and admonitions of the gods,) was the only cause of it.