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.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Spiritual balance means that outward things become transparent to the inward Reality.



"When we have achieved a balance between the inward and the outward, the outward is no longer equated with disordered desire and anxiety; it is in a certain way interiorized, its contents are transparent . . . When we interiorize ourselves, God so to speak exteriorizes Himself while enriching us from within; there lies all the mystery of the metasphysical transparency of phenomena and of their immanence in us."

Frithjof Schuon

Photo: A new aspen leaf  in the mist, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, May 11, 2012
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