To feel we belong to the world, we must be deserted.

 

"To feel we belong to the world, we must be deserted."

Ellen Meloy 

I find that the more other people disappoint my expectations of what I would like them to be, the more I begin to detach from my own small-self and identify instead with the larger self, which is one with God and with the cosmic perspective.  For me, desert landscapes are especially effective in supporting this approach. I found this to be true in a special way yesterday, when I encountered not a single soul on my hike in an arid landscape just forty-five minutes from my home.

Photos: Red Mountain Open Space, Larmier County, CO, October 20, 2014