Direct awareness
External world
On the move
Qualities of objects and events are perceptual abstractions which are synthetically recognized as objective truth. A shared cultural inventory of accepted theories are foundational to understanding.
“The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind.” – Stephan Attia
Fragile glimpse
Sacred epiphany
Eloquent occasion
Alert to spiritual dynamics, a walk on the beach points to realities that are ineffable. Participation in certain experiences helps to render life more alive.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
Ascending hot vapor
Geothermal proceedings
Airborne minute droplets
Early morning exploration richly rewards with stunning light raking across the Norris Geyser Basin. Here two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone of the Yellowstone Caldera, resulting in dynamic surface heat activity.
“Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards.” – Jill Tarter
Light ray
Action sequence
Surface inclination
Built to control wind and wave action involving small particle distribution, beach sand retaining fences also affect radiation illumination patterns.
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.” – E. M. Forster
Enclosed spaces
Line row control
Social withdrawal
The perceived layout of the physical environment can be affected by emotional states, especially where throngs gather. All animals allocate their limited energy and time across necessary proceedings.
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” – Voltaire
Expansion experience
Perceptual horizon
Accumulated objects
On the river shore, selectively attending to different environmental contingencies is enlightening. Evidence of flow pattern remnants offer a heightened attainment to the generative process of existence.
“Our proper identity is a kind of change.” – Jeff Morrisey
Urban moment
Surrounding scene
Artistic inspiration
A key tenet of mindfulness suggests that we normally miss many interesting stimuli in the present moment. Mundane sameness and boring circumstances are states of mind.
“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
Aroused thought
Natural depths
Strangely accurate
Highly individual aesthetic experience emanates at the threshold of thought, as an intuitive element percolating below intellectual cognition. Integrating sensory and emotional reactions, value involves recognizing the essential point of existence.
“Sometime I think; and sometime I am.” – Paul Valéry
Biological production
Dominated by grasses
Significant degree
Not easily navigated on foot, an area of low-lying land on the York River is periodically flooded and typically remains waterlogged. Being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this marsh is brackish and experiences tidal fluctuations.
“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant
Physical fringe
Land edge
Waterbody
Overpowered by large trees obscuring the magnitude of the liquid expanse, dense herbaceous vegetation dominates the lake.
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” – Ralph W. Sockman