"There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul," "a door to a simple and holy state." -Lane
It sounds so attractive to be completely removed from my world and live a "simple and holy" life in the desert. I remember reading during research for my paper that desert people do not talk very much, if they do not find anything they really need to say, they dont say anything. Their world is very simple also, only the most necessary things live in the desert, and those creatures only perform the most necessary actions, because they do not have energy for much else in the dry, hot landscape. For those people who have only ever lived in the desert, this life must be so completely differnt from mine, and so peaceful. I want to shift to that kind of life, but after 22 years of complete luxury and spoiled comfort, I wonder if I could. I am so used to having unlimited choices in every aspect of life, what to do, where to be, who to be with, what to eat. But as I heard from a video on ted.com, choices do not make people happy, but life is actually easier and more satisfying with only a few choices available to people. Is this the solace that Lane talks about? Maybe some of it, but the holy living comes from somewhere else, something about being connected to the land and nature, "being forced inward by the desolation of what is outward." And what is inward is your spirit, and God's spirit, or something like that.
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