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Out for a late autumn hike, and up on 1. Grebenzenhöhe; November 20, 2011.
Explore - Interestingness # 100.
100 pictures - # 67. distance
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
― John Muir
ICM (intentional camera movement) + some post processing
When we speak of “a feast for the eyes,” this may refer to a tastefully laid-out buffet, but more often to some non-edible display, to flowerbeds or costumes of ballet, to beauty that feeds our hearts through our eyes. In this sense, the whole visible world is a mouthwatering smorgasbord of sights that will make our eyes water, for our hearts will overflow with grateful joy if only wee look.
-A Listening Heart, The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness,
Brother David Steindl-Rast
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Klaus Schulze - My Ty She
. . . . Is Christian doctrine, where it covers real mysteries, really a highly complicated system of orderly statements? Or is it rather a mysteriously simple thing of infinite fullness, which can be propounded in an immense variety of statements, while its mysterious and simple unity remains unchanged? So that man, faced with this multiplicity of assertions, need not be the victim of modernistic simplifications of religion if he finds himself as he really is, the being in face of the nameless mystery.
Karl Rahner, “The Concept of Mystery in Catholic Theology,” 36–37.-
But above all, I feel utterly remote from Newman’s society. One look into his life makes me feel like a savage. He is completely foreign to me: speech, attitudes, everything. I have none of his refinement. In fact I have always scrupulously avoided refinement. If I am drawn to mysticism, it is to a mysticism that has a certain earthy side to it, like that of the twelfth century.
-The Sign of Jonas, Thomas Merton
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Amen! Too what Merton said!
-rc
False Solomon's Seal
Photographers and botanists are known for making slow progress on hikes especially when there is a subject to examine.
Ok.
My first guess at identification was False. It was not Solomon's Seal. Nor was it Rosy Solomon's Seal or Imitation Solomon's Seal. It was not Twisted Stalk, Rosy Twisted Stalk, False Twisted Stalk or False Imitation Rosy Twisted Stalk.
Ay Caurmba!
I saw a white flower with a black background and so I clicked the shutter.
(Maianthemum racemosum)
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My wife and I went on a 4.5 hour hike today and I took one photo. I think the couch will be my safe place tomorrow.
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
-Etty Hillesum
All really valid poetry (poetry that is fully alive and asserts its reality by its power to generate imaginative life) is a kind of recovery of paradise. Not that the poet comes up with a report that he, an unusual man, has found his own way back into Eden; but the living line and the generative association, the new sound, the music, the structure, are somehow grounded in a renewal of vision and hearing so that he who reads and understands recognizes that here is a new start, a new creation. Here the world gets another chance. Here . . . the reader discovers himself getting another start in life, in hope, in imagination.
-Thomas Merton,” Louis Zukofsky: The Paradise Ear,” 128.
If we want something, we easily persuade ourselves that what we want is God’s will just as long as it turns out to be difficult to obtain. What is easy is my own will: what is hard is God’s will. If I happen to desire something hard to get, it means that I want to sacrifice myself to do God’s will. No other standard applies. And because we make fetishes out of difficulties we sometimes work ourselves into the most fantastically stupid situations, and use ourselves up not for God but for ourselves. We think we have done great things because we are worn out. If we have rushed into the fields or into the woods and done a great deal of damage, we are satisfied. We do not mind ruining all our machinery, as long as we make a deafening noise and stir up a great cloud of dust. Something has been achieved.
-The Sign of Jonas, Thomas Merton
Faith, the fundamental mode of sapiential knowing, is a knowing in darkness, an affirmative cognition of mystery. What is known is “the mystery,” and the knowing is consequently obscure even as it is certain.
-The Future of Wisdom: Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity, Bruno Barnhart, Cynthia Bourgeault, and Cyprian Consiglio
Date to be given: 05/20/18
Subject: CCC paragraph 518-Quote from St. Irenaeus (Source: 185-186)
Quote:
When Christ became incarnate and was made man, he recapitulated in himself in the long history of mankind and procured for us a ‘short cut’ to salvation, so that what we had lost in Adam, that is, being in the image and likeness of God, we might recover in Christ Jesus. (185) For this reason Christ experienced all states of life, thereby giving communion with God to all men. (186) End Quote
Wow! So much to address in a short quote. So much of what I read out of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, leaves me thinking very deeply. I found this quote from St. Irenaeus to be funny. Why? You may ask. St. Irenaeus implies that Jesus has given us a ‘short cut’ to salvation. Now that I have been Catholic for over 30 years, the evidence would suggest otherwise. What evidence is there?
Well, for example we have Holy Days of Obligation. We also have the requirement of going to Mass on Sundays, with a convenient penalty of a mortal sin, if we miss a Sunday service. Now, a mortal sin is very serious. I think you are getting my point by now. If you need other examples, please talk to me in person.
Now, let me tell you what I really think. I think St. Irenaeus is telling us before Christ, it was truly an impossible task to keep every rule that had developed in the Jewish tradition. With Christ, things would be set right. Why? Christ has truly paid the price for our sins. Christ also gave us a path…which is to take up our cross and follow him. We can now focus on our relationship with him. We do what he would do. If we have a deep relationship with Christ, the rules, change to signs of encouragement.
Jesus said that the greatest commandments are to love the Lord with all of our heart, soul and mind…and to love our neighbor as ourself. As we walk that path of Christ, we understand that our intent to please him is what motivates us. We do things not because we have too…but because we want to commune with God. This communing happens to take place in our Liturgical worship. We do this because we want to-not because we have too.
I guess St. Irenaeus was right. Love is a short cut.
-rc
"Søndagstur" roughly translates as "Sunday hike". Its the unofficial national pastime in Norway, probably beating cross-country skiing, as you can do it all year.
Here in Asker outside the capital Oslo the lake Semsvannet is one of the favourite places for a søndagstur.
This one's shot across the lake, the tele lens catching some of the Sunday hike people and great reflections. Other points of interest: Still some snow left, mixed up with Autumn colours on the trees.
Main processing done with levels and curves, unsharp mask added to sharpen the shot, as I mostly do these days. The reflections are genuine, as my eye and the camera saw them, not the result of some Photoshop filtre.)
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When we live superficially, when we are always outside of ourselves, never quite 'with' ourselves, always divided and pulled in many directions by conflicting plans and projects, we find ourselves doing many things that that we do not really want to do, saying things we do not really mean, exhausting ourselves for what secretly realize to be worthless and without meaning in our lives.
-Thomas Merton (Love and Living, 43)
(Sunday Hike-05/20/18)
One blade of wild grass. Everything blurs around you and in the picture, a haze of vertical in shades of "deep" green. Such detail in one straight line...I watch this tower blow in the wind...and I know that my camera is set to freeze you in motion. How inspired I am! Beauty in simplicity and detail. Without you what would have moved me...in this moment?
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