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, June 28, 2012

All things emerge - luminous and newborn - out of the vast space of God's loving awareness.


Meditation practice offers us the realization that each object of experience emerges - magically, almost - from within the vast space of awareness.  It's as though the meditator embodies the vastness of a divine mind which is Love, and then watches spellbound as each thing arises - luminous and newborn - as an expression of that vastness, spontaneous and full of surprise.  All things emerge out of divine love, yes - but that love is a blissful state of awareness in which God eternally loses himself, a self-forgetting that nevertheless is the magical source of each and every being!

Photo: Alpine Sunflowers backlit on the shore of Lake of Many Winds, with Pilot Mountain in the background; Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 25, 2012

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