Wilderness, The Gateway To The Soul: Spiritual Enlightenment Through Wilderness (Nature Book Series)

by Scott Stillman

I find that when I open up and surrender to the present moment, accepting it for all its beauty and amazement, the universe guides me to all the right places.

What if there were a secret back-door portal to enlightenment? A shortcut, so to speak. I believe that the answer lies here, in wilderness. The shortcut is the long walk. However, you must go it alone.

WORK LESS, PLAY MORE. It’s not just evolution, it’s revolution. Progress!

No plans. Read, write, drink tea, swim, take a nap—all excellent options. As usual I’ll choose not to decide. It’s the lack of decision that relaxes the mind, offering the rare chance to call upon instinct rather than logic.

But language as a hindrance? A disease? Impossible! Yet what if language was actually limiting our potential as a species?

Are we over-thinking our way into madness and self-destruction? Have we lost our most basic skill, or just forgotten it? Perhaps the mystics are right, if we could all quiet our minds we might just become enlightened.

Beauty is indeed a choice. Day by day, moment by moment, we choose love or hate, life or death, light or darkness. The seeds for both are contained within all things, both living and nonliving. It all depends on what we focus on. We create our own world. Focus on beauty and beauty you find. Focus on darkness and darkness will prevail. Beauty guides through the heart. Darkness through the mind.