Nature helps us move outside our concerns about how we fit into society's mold.

Time spent immersed in Nature is an important spiritual practice because it helps us move outside the individual self with its incessant concerns about how to fit into society's mold. Instead, we begin to find ourselves grounded in a world that is much grander, vaster and more intriguing than we ever imagined.

Photo: Indian Paintbrush at Cedar Breaks; Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT; August 29, 2014