Tuesday, April 9, 2013

We experience immortality in the timelessness of a mountain day.



"Talk of immortality!  After a whole day in the woods, we are already immortal.  Where is the end of such a day? . . . Every sense is satisfied.  For us there is no past, no future.  We live in the present and are full . . . These diverse days are so complete there is no sense of time in them; they have no definite beginning or ending, and form a kind of terrestrial immortality."

The Contemplative John Muir, pp. 205, 206

Photo: Pasqueflowers blooming in front of Horsetooth Rock; Horsetooth Mountain Park, CO; April 8, 2013




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