I came across this quote from Edward Abbey today … "Climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious and awesome space."
Edward Abbey was an author and essayist, called “the Thoreau of the American West.” His quote definitely speaks to that, in terms of the wide open country he speaks and writes about. I can place myself in his “scene”, not just in terms of what he describes, but also in what it means to me.
It reminds me of the Jesus Prayer we shared in our Why Catholic group ... meditation that night was actually a first for me, and it was a great start. We are rarely out in the wilderness that Abbey describes but we can definitely go there in our minds ... that is the power of meditation.
This passage also speaks to the wonder that is God and the nature He provides for us. For me it is about somehow achieving a oneness with God, in that "precious stillness" and surrounded by the "sweet and lucid air" of real nature. Or not ... I love the last line as well, because life itself is a "lovely, mysterious and awesome space."
Today I will take the time to go myself into the "precious stillness" that we can all find, if we but close our eyes and imagine.
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