But the Great Spirit
has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature's university,
the forests, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals which include us."
Walking
"I
felt lifted up, as though the great wind of a mountain top blew through and
through."
Big Book
pg. 14
…Now and then we may be granted a glimpse of
that ultimate reality which is God's kingdom. And we will be comforted and
assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we
try, however falteringly, to find and do the will of our Creator.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 98
Let
us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift
our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still
unseen.
"Shucks!"
says somebody. "This is nonsense. It isn't practical."
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 100
Great
Spirit let me hear the lessons from nature.