“Empty desert, empty ruins: this open emptiness erases all the meaning we want to invest in things, all the pattern and coherence, depth and purpose and value. It’s exquisite how a place so empty and inhospitable could offer the possibility of dwelling. Here at the edge of the human, the world simply is what it is: occurring, essencing, breathing. And whatever I am prior to the usefulness of experience and definition, the meaningfulness that story conjures, that too simply is what it is—mirror-deep and dwelling, occurring, orienting.”
— Orient by David Hinton 📚