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, November 30, 2012

Use erotic desire to penetrate the world with love.


"Inhale the energy of erotic desire into your heart, and then feel outward from your heart, feeling the world as if it were your lover.  With an exhale, move into the world and penetrate it, skillfully and spontaneously, opening it into love.  . . . Make love with the world in this way, all day, pervading and dissolving all unease.  Feel the world against your body like a naked woman, vulnerable and alive, and allow the front of your body to press into and through the world's body, liberating the knots of accumulated pain . . . Feeling through and through and through is your only freedom . . . A man's attraction to the feminine must be converted from attraction TO the feminine into attraction THROUGH the feminine . . . The very light of your consciousness shines as the world, and it is looking back at you, appearing as woman . . . Your ultimate desire is for the union of masculine consciousness with its own feminine luminosity, wherein all appearance is recognized as your deep, blissful nature . . . Like a slingshot, the momentum of your desire can be used to deliver you to the Source."

David Deida, 
teacher of Kashmiri tantra

Photo:  "The Phallus," Dewey Bridge Member of Entrada sandstone from the Jurassic Period; Arches National Park, UT; November 26, 2012


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