The soul insists on journeys to the gardens of the heart. Somewhere outside the walls we’re constantly building around ourselves resides everything we truly hope for.

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ” ― John Muir #nature #beauty #spring #hope #naturephotography #muir #grace #soul #spirit #home #latergram

“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone” ― Alan Cohen

Follow your heart, listen to your spirit, lift your soul. So much for which to be thankful with even more still to come.

Refuse the journal of other people’s fears and their documentation of your own failings. The truth resides elsewhere. Like light reaching across the sky. There is so much more. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ― Rumi (via TumbleOn)

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”  - Pablo Neruda

Deep in the remains of a season. Memories and the true blessings sweeten. Disappointments drift away to nothingness. And in the shifting light and falling shadows a new door begins to open. Hope, faith, courage. Onward.

Illuminate. Late afternoon sunlight through a Sycamore leaf on November 1, 2012.

Enlightenment through light-heartedness. The true beauty of the spirit within reveals itself through translucence, when the layers of the pretending ego are stripped away. When the internal shines with the brilliancy of the eternal. I am thankful.

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” ― Albert Einstein

The gift of photography is the art of discovery. To gather scenes, subjects and light that moved the photographer enough to compose and capture; to bring to the surface the desire of the artist to not possess but rather to share and enhance the sacred connection of beauty. It is the visualization of a spirit moved by the wandering heart.

Sanctuaries of spirit. Healing places of the heart. Battle-scarred and weatherworn, we always find our way back home.