"A sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man."
- William Wordsworth.
Today, I hiked three separate Mountains looking for my first campsite.
There will be much time for reflection soon, but something that immediately struck me was a pervasive Spirit of animation & sacredness that imbued greater Value into everything around me.
Perhaps going to the Woods is a lesson in spiritual economics.
I want to study closely this system of Value that Nature offers.
There, a stone may be merely that.
But here (glistening & glinting in the coruscating light of a gurgling stream), I wish for a Stone to teach me Beauty, Stillness, & Peace in the mere act of Being.
We may learn by a thing,
Only in proportion to the Value
We ascribe it.
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