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.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

During meditation, the interior lake of awareness remains vast and calm regardless of the hue of our particular emotional state at the time.


Like Crater Lake at different times of day, the particular "color" of each meditation session is bound to be different than any of the others. 




But through it all, the interior "lake" of awareness always remains expansive and peaceful, 



regardless of the changing hue of our particular emotional state during any given session.





Photos: Crater Lake from sunrise through early evening; The red flower is Pumice paintbrush; Crater Lake National Park, OR; July 28, 2014

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