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, March 28, 2013

To exist everywhere in God, I have to be No-one.


"To be one with One Whom one cannot see is to be hidden, to be nowhere, to be no one; it is to be unknown as He is unknown, forgotten as He is forgotten, lost as He is lost to the world which nevertheless exists in Him.  Yet to live in Him is to live by His power, to reach from end to end of the universe in the might of His wisdom . . . [As a monk], I disappear from the world as an object of interest in order to be everywhere in it by hiddenness and compassion.  To exist everywhere I have to be No-one."

Thomas Merton

Photo: The Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; March 21, 2013








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