[pct-l] God and G-d

[kraig.mottar at verizon.net (Kraig Mottar)]

Starting this thread was a mistake, it was intended for a different list of a different topic, but you're going with it. So, I'll put in 2 more cents.

It is, I think, relevant to hiking, if meditation is an interest which is what hiking is to begin with. Meditation and solitude is the only way to come close to and communicate with God, the Universe, the All and any name it goes by. The clutter of day to day living are what keep us separated from the Universe.

I don't know about these principalities and  powers of the spirit but if you like inventing terms. Real truth goes beyond religion. Though, it is doubtful people realize this til they die, or leave this part of the universe we now inhabit.

Kraig

ps- If anyone wants to continue this thread it will continue, if you wish to continue it you will reply to it, if you do not, don't reply and ignore it.

>From: Mtnned@aol.com
>Date: Thu Sep 22 23:03:02 CDT 2005
>To: jdawud@yahoo.com
>Cc: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] God and G-d

>Junaid,
> 
>Yes, as it is, complication does distract the mind from the heart and  its 
>issues of great spiritual importance.  Why do you think this world  is so full 
>of mental information appealing to our self-will and pride or why  there are so 
>many fears and temptations?  To keep us from spiritual matters  of greater 
>importance (that effect our very lives).  
> 
>Reality is, if you are willing to see it this way, ours in not a  battle 
>against flesh and blood but against principalities and  powers of the spirit.  
> 
>When we hike, we leave behind the responsibilities, obligations, deadlines  
>and over all hassles of daily, worldly life.  We must or we would always  have 
>something "hanging over our heads" as we walk down the trail.  In  this 
>absence we are less distracted and begin to hear, think, and  feel better.  We 
>become healthier in body, soul, and spirit.  As  if a "weight" has been removed 
>from each of us.  We feel the wind, smell  the humid pines, and let ourselves go 
>in the vast space of the mountains as  if we had never been this free before. 
>It is this freedom and simplicity of life  that allows our pummeled spirits to 
>soar.  Though we may not have known it,  nor choose to recognize it, we find 
>we do have a spirit within us and for some  we miss it when we go home.
> 
>Food for Thought.
> 
>Mtnned
> 
> 
> 
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