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.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Spirituality is seeing through all things into the spacious love of the Divine Source


A goal of true spirituality is the ability to look THROUGH all creatures and events in order to view them as transparent to the spacious love of the Divine Source. In fact, the more suffering something causes, the more energy it creates to propel us - like a slingshot - through its seeming constriction and solidity and into the liberating vastness that lies within it.

Photo: Icicles on a branch, with the sun setting on Bellvue Dome in the distance, Watson Lake, Bellvue, CO, February 17, 2015

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