Walking with a Bear S.O.U.L.

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Tag: awareness

  • The Moment Everything Turned to Look at Me

    I was eleven years old, deep on a portage trail, when something shifted. The trees, the wind, the earth beneath my feet—it all turned toward me, as if nature itself had a sparkle in its eye. It wasn’t just me moving through the wilderness; the wilderness was alive, aware, seeing me as if it was…

  • You don’t know what you don’t know. Flip that upside down and ask how knowing about something differs from deeply knowing something? What is knowing? To know is to be one with. According to an old friend, Clare Blanchflower, The mind gets in the way by conceptualizing and projecting its concepts outwards onto the play…

  • Ever notice how good you feel when you stop what you are doing and go sit outside? For a moment… it dawns on you that nature is awesome. Then some thought comes into mind, maybe that nature is awesome, or something else, and then that feeling quickly fades as you head off in some direction…