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.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Human loneliness is actually God's loneliness.


I am like an addict
In my longing for a sublime state,

For that ground of Conscious Nothing
Where the Rose ever
Blooms 

. . . Now that the heart has held
That which can never be touched
My subsistence is a blessed 
Desolation

And from that I cry for more loneliness.
 
I am lonely.
I am so lonely, dear Beloved,
For the quintessence of
Loneliness,

For what is more alone than God?

Hafiz

Photo: Sunset on the Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, March 10, 2012

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