A Walk in the Woods

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

~John Muir

Did you know that John Muir lost his sight for a segment of his life? His right eye was punctured and the left eye sank into “sympathetic” blindness after a factory accident. He described it as the ‘darkest time of his life’.

One of his friends wrote an encouraging letter to him during that dark time saying: “God gave you ‘the eye within the eye, to see the realized ideas of His mind .“

I think we’ve all experienced a segment of time like this – we may not have lost our sight physically, but we’ve experienced darkness. It’s then that we need to move inward to our ‘Eye within the eye.’

Join me for a walk today. Move inward and merge with the pleasure of nature…

This is an excerpt from our book “The Art of Being Alive“, a photographic journey of inner reflection.