The brisk air and steep inclines of the mountains inspire a disciplined life, which is one of the great keys to happiness. Discipline - which usually involves some form of saying 'no' - creates the boundaries of a psychological "container" that allow the divine life to spurt up and over the lip and overflow like a lovely inner fountain. Paradoxically, the more consciously enclosed within our own self we are, the more easily grace is able to overflow from our lives, watering everyone around us. In the absence of such limitation, the self-container keeps getting bigger and bigger, and the divine life is thus never able to overflow for the benefit of all.
Photos: (Top) Mountain Bog Gentian and Mount Rainier; (Middle)
Mountain-Ash berries and Mount Rainier; (Bottom) Mount Adams, as
viewed from the slopes of Mount Rainier. All three photos were taken at
Mount Rainier National Park, WA, on July 28, 2015
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