Personal Development

My Wilderness Roots

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Every time I leave the gardens of the “civilized” world and wander to the Wild places, I hear my self calling out through the trees and the mountains and the bubbling streams. Like I’ve been here all along waiting to be found, but I’ve only just begun to recognize the sound of my own soul echoing through everything around me. Many people wander to the Wild to escape, to run away. There was a time where I wondered, was asked, what I might be running away from…
I think about it now and realize maybe I haven’t been running away at all. Maybe I’ve been running toward that long lost part of me. Magnetically drawing me home.

Wilderness: A Gateway to Minimalism

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Our society of consumerism has instilled in us this unconscious belief that happiness lies outside ourselves, in the next thing, the newest model. In reality, this preoccupation with possessions is an endless, fruitless cycle that distracts from deep-rooted, intrinsic happiness. After all, nothing is enough for the person to whom enough is too little. Happiness comes from within ourselves, how we choose to experience every moment of every day NOT from the temporary high of accumulating the next thing. My formula, taught to me through my wilderness backpack, is simple: Less stuff, more happiness.