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  1. Kathleen
    March 16, 2017 @ 7:50 pm

    Fascinating! It’s interesting how we can relate so much to this, the desire to just disappear and blend in with nature, though the vast majority of us would never want the actual hermit experience (especially in winter!).

    Love,

    Kathleen

  2. Mike Zerbel
    March 20, 2017 @ 12:26 am

    What a perfect ending line: “He could no longer disappear into the wild, so he wished to melt away into the world.”

    Reminds me of your “we’re all archetypes for each other”. The book Ego Tunnel made clear that the virtual worlds our brains make even “reach out” to other ego tunnels to be sustained. This is actually the first internet. The sensory inputs are the signals accepted to reinforce the internally interpreted world. The North Pond Hermit raided for food and what other input he chose. As the line above indicates, his way was more direct than the convoluted ways egos in the world have learned to “melt away”.

    I guess we can choose where we’re looking from. We stare at the internally conjured world, or we accept we’re the internet of all things. The poor hermit retained the guilt of the miserable private world. I wish he could have enjoyed a more bear-like experience, and knew he was One with those cabins and their food and the body’s needs.

    • Fred Davis
      March 20, 2017 @ 12:37 am

      I completely get where you’re coming from, but just to push the point, notice that none of it could not have happened any other way. Seeing and accepting that truth here – and everywhere else in our lives – is what takes the sting out of unrealized wishes and/or expectations. :-)♥

      I know you love ACIM. The smallest framed object on my studio backdrop table – the one you can’t read! LOL – has an ACIM quote that reads, “Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.” _()_

  3. Barb
    March 26, 2017 @ 10:51 pm

    This one blew my socks off, followed by a deep sense of truth. Wasn’t certain how the phrase the sense here in words.

    • Fred Davis
      March 26, 2017 @ 10:54 pm

      Incredible, huh? 🙂


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