Nature Photo-Quotes

"My one job as a monk is to live this hermit life in simple and direct contact with nature, primitively, quietly, doing some writ...

Wilderness Mysticism affirms the utter magic of life. It stands in amazement at the poetic realization that each being and each event...

We are all called to highlight the beauty - both external and internal - of one another, thus enabling each one to glow in his or her ...

While spending time this past weekend hiking and meditating in the golden glory of the changing aspen, I found myself reflecting on th...

Instagram, I've found, radically shatters common societal stereotypes about people who focus attention on their own physical attrac...

The phenomenon of the "Selfie" challenges the traditional notion of a humble, unselfconscious spirituality like almost no oth...

The other day as I was sitting under a tree in the mountains, admiring a whole group of backlit Aspens glowing in the sunlight, it sud...

The three ways of knowing and finding union with the sacred Great Beyond can be exquisitely applied to light. According to the kata...

"When you find a heaven on earth, as John Muir had found in the mountains and forests of wild America, it is easy to forgive....

"A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves . . . " John Keats The other da...

"An intimate relationship with the landscape is a fundamental defense against loneliness. If you're intimate with a place an...

The masculine aspect of our true self - our spirit or animus, in Jungian terms, is a solitary, singular reality. This, of course, is ...

In Wilderness Insight Meditation, we let go of every thought, emotion and perception in order to melt into and identify ourselves with...

In an earlier post, I talked about the "three ways" of knowing the Ultimate. In actuality, I was speaking of only ONE aspect...

What is Spiritual Direction, and Who is Stephen Hatch? "Spiritual Direction" is a term used in the classic contemplative...