Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, February 3, 2012

When you dwell in a space that feels like non-existence, the Creator of Existence can truly work!


 "The Absolute Being creates out of non-existence; what other workshop but non-existence could the Creator of Existence have?  Do you write over what is already written?  Do you plant a sapling where there's one growing already?  No!  So look for a piece of paper no one has written on; search for a place where nothing has ever been sown.  Be a place unsown, a white paper no writing has stained, so the Pen of Mercy can ennoble you, and the Merciful One can sow in your blindness the seed of Pure Vision."

Jelaluddin Rumi

Photo: A Snow Buttercup blooms from within a snowfield, Never Summer Range, CO, June 30, 2010

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