I visit vividly-hued lakes in part because their eye-like quality reminds me that the landscape is alive with sacred subjectivity. I am seen just as much as I see!
And this mutual seeing - when motivated by a desire to find the best in the one seen - is ITSELF beautiful, as these amazing lakes so wonderfully express. In fact, the landscape's seeing is able to occur - at least in part - because it borrows MY seeing.
To paraphrase that famous phrase of Meister Eckhart: "The eye through which I see the landscape is the SAME eye through which the landscape sees me!" This insight enables me to realize that I AM NEEDED to help make the seeing landscape conscious!
Photos: (Top) Iceberg Lake, (2nd) Grinnell Lake and (3rd) Lake Josephine, all in Glacier National Park (MT) The closeup photo (Bottom) is of a part of Crater Lake, OR; All photos taken in late July, 2014
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