Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Canyons are an external embodiment of the internal depths of the soul.


Canyons beckon to us because they are an external embodiment of the internal depths of the soul. In the Christian mystical tradition, our divine Source - God - dwells endlessly deep with those depths, from which issues the stream of sacred silence. Within that bottomless interior canyon of the soul exists the loving gaze of God, which holds us in its intimate embrace and magnetizes our awareness, luring us ever more deeply into the blissful, ecstatic silence in which both God and we are forever lost.

Photo: Looking down into the depths of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, CO, August 10, 2014.

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