The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

by Boyd Varty

“You must train yourself to see what you are looking for.”

But there it was: the inclination to go into life that had been with him his whole life. The gift of wild tenacity that his father had given him.

said, “If you can see your whole life’s path laid out then it’s not your life’s path.”

Occasionally, some task that I need to do will arise crisply out of nowhere. I notice it, attend to it, and then drop back into a gentle ease with myself.

In complete solitude, we are not a concept of ourselves; we are ourselves. It was St.

anthropomorphize.

I know that one of the great dangers of my life would be to live without danger. In our encounters with the edges, we come to know ourselves more deeply. Neurosis is a substitute for real suffering. Fearfulness is the most common state in a life that asks for no real courage.

Joseph Campbell: “People are not looking for the meaning of life, they are looking for the feeling of being alive.”

It is the magic hour. The light is now “the light that makes everything beautiful,” as the Shangaan call

We are a society that lives in denial of death and so we are a society that denies life.

But out here, how flimsy we are, with no boundaries between us and nature. What a wonderful teacher of how to live. In the face of fear is also something like awe.

I give up the importance of my life to instead become a part of life.

It feels short to me, almost anticlimactic. But Ren and Alex were never motivated by the outcome. They live on the trail. And now, so do I.