[pct-l] smell the vanilla was God and G-d

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

dear philosophers,

I recommend the deep sniffing of ponderosa pines.

s.c.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kraig Mottar" <kraig.mottar@verizon.net>
To: <Mtnned@aol.com>; <jdawud@yahoo.com>
Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [pct-l] God and G-d


> 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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