Our relationship to the earth horizon is the nurture of the spiritual life.

"Naked space excites in the heart the subtle sense of relationship to the earth horizon which is the nurture of the spiritual life."

Mary Austin

My life experience of people is this: they appear in our lives, become intrigued with us for a short time, and then move on when more interesting things beckon.  This pattern has become even more prominent over the past several decades, when the pace of life has quickened at an ever-accelerating rate. For me, this situation is an important lesson in learning to identify ourselves with the vast, sacred expanses of the heart and mind rather than with the small, individual ego-self.  This spaciousness is the vastness of a divine love in which ALL of us appear, thrive for a time, and then dissolve like echoes out of Nowhere back into that vast, ever-expanding love.  This, I believe, is the only way to stay sane in a hectic, frenetic, impersonal, corporate-industrial society.

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Photos: (Top) Horses, prairie, and The Snowy Range, near Centennial, WY, October 14, 2014; (Middle) The Mummy Range, seen from the prairie expanses near Centennial, WY, October 14, 2014; (Bottom) Deer Mountain, Moraine Park, and Aspen tree, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, October 11, 2014