28 Perspective and Meaning
When you’re in the desert, you look into infinity. It’s no wonder that nearly all the great founders of religion came out of the desert. It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.
—David Lean
It’s a chilly autumn morning in the desert. I am still in my sleeping bag, leaning against a large rock, sipping fresh coffee as I savor the first rays of sunlight, looking down a beautiful canyon through the sheltering arc of a large alcove that has been my home for the last three days. The air is perfectly still. Not even a single leaf in the old cottonwood trees lining the creek below me is so much as trembling. The only sounds are the soft gurgle of flowing water, reverberating off the stone ...
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