All is not lost

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed, it is where you travel to find yourself, often, paradoxically, by getting lost.*
Roger Deakin

Mystical vision is the way the soul sees.**
James Carse

A wood will do it, or
the openness of a beach unencumbered
by people or their “augmentations” –
But also a book or listening to someone’s story or gardening or
eyes closed and listening for 4′ 33″

Where do you go to become lost,
Yet know exactly where you are?


*Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks;
**James Carse’s Breakfast at the Victory.

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