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Aspen Matis Quote: “Held in his piercing powder-blue vision, I froze. A butterfly awakened in my chest.”

51. “Held in his piercing powder-blue vision, I froze. A butterfly awakened in my chest.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “Because – as I’d discovered – loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”

52. “Because – as I’d discovered – loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “I was able to pitch a tent and carry a backpack twenty-five miles a day through mountains – I’d mastered a thousand amazing physical feats – physically I’d become undeniably confident and capable – but physical weakness had never been the problem that I had. My true problem had been passivity, the lifelong-conditioned submission that became my nature.”

53. “I was able to pitch a tent and carry a backpack twenty-five miles a day through mountains – I’d mastered a thousand amazing physical feats – physically I’d become undeniably confident and capable – but physical weakness had never been the problem that I had. My true problem had been passivity, the lifelong-conditioned submission that became my nature.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures – I felt I had become more of a creature than a girl. I could handle myself in the wild.”

54. “I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures – I felt I had become more of a creature than a girl. I could handle myself in the wild.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.”

55. “It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “This protest spoke to me – the humanist principles felt connected to the minimalist essence of long-distance hiking, the desire to transcend the smoke and mirrors of our country’s established society, revealing what remains in all its splendor: the magnificent, resilient human soul.”

56. “This protest spoke to me – the humanist principles felt connected to the minimalist essence of long-distance hiking, the desire to transcend the smoke and mirrors of our country’s established society, revealing what remains in all its splendor: the magnificent, resilient human soul.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “And so, despite the complex web of paths, waterfalls, cliffs, as a hiker wanders downhill, drainages merge, faint, abstract paths coalesce, thicken, until there is one path – the one, natural, trodden way.”

57. “And so, despite the complex web of paths, waterfalls, cliffs, as a hiker wanders downhill, drainages merge, faint, abstract paths coalesce, thicken, until there is one path – the one, natural, trodden way.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “A single black ant sped across the floor beyond our naked toes, and I wondered why I felt so oppositional. His expression of unflappable faith had touched a profound place, the deep wellspring of my purpose – my future dream I cradled like a soft and formative pearl.”

58. “A single black ant sped across the floor beyond our naked toes, and I wondered why I felt so oppositional. His expression of unflappable faith had touched a profound place, the deep wellspring of my purpose – my future dream I cradled like a soft and formative pearl.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “Trails enabled me to better see the world, to notice fine aspects invisible from an airplane, the most basic things we miss. Seeing life at a pace at which you can actually observe nuance, the speed of stepping, the beautiful inspiring texture of “plain” reality becomes visible – God smiling in the detail.”

59. “Trails enabled me to better see the world, to notice fine aspects invisible from an airplane, the most basic things we miss. Seeing life at a pace at which you can actually observe nuance, the speed of stepping, the beautiful inspiring texture of “plain” reality becomes visible – God smiling in the detail.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.”

60. “My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “My parents had lived in California, long ago, when they were twenty and twenty-two, also newly married. This distant knowledge romanced me like a whiff of honey, the sweet and mythic prehistory of my existence.”

61. “My parents had lived in California, long ago, when they were twenty and twenty-two, also newly married. This distant knowledge romanced me like a whiff of honey, the sweet and mythic prehistory of my existence.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “I’d begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl’s knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had.”

62. “I’d begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl’s knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him.”

63. “I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “We walked back to his revived house in tender silence, the dry gold land freckled with young pines and red flowers.”

64. “We walked back to his revived house in tender silence, the dry gold land freckled with young pines and red flowers.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “I walked, floated, lighter – forty miles, my biggest day yet. I’d lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self – forgiveness for my innocence.”

65. “I walked, floated, lighter – forty miles, my biggest day yet. I’d lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self – forgiveness for my innocence.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “Spirit dancing, I envisioned a place inside this energetic city, ours: a classic townhouse on a steep street with expansive views of the Pacific, the magenta siding sun-faded – a third-story perch, thick platinum haze embracing our new home.”

66. “Spirit dancing, I envisioned a place inside this energetic city, ours: a classic townhouse on a steep street with expansive views of the Pacific, the magenta siding sun-faded – a third-story perch, thick platinum haze embracing our new home.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hunger, exhaustion, cold, lower-back ache, thirst. The ephemeral pangs: wistfulness and loneliness. Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.”

67. “I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hunger, exhaustion, cold, lower-back ache, thirst. The ephemeral pangs: wistfulness and loneliness. Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.”

— Aspen Matis

Aspen Matis Quote: “The block of sky in our twin high windows became a nectarine, amber and rose pink, and we lay in silence as white sunlight broke.”

68. “The block of sky in our twin high windows became a nectarine, amber and rose pink, and we lay in silence as white sunlight broke.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “This sudden sweet loot appearing, I felt like we were tricking the world – living in urban loopholes.”

69. “This sudden sweet loot appearing, I felt like we were tricking the world – living in urban loopholes.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “On this walk I’d had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother’s influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.”

70. “On this walk I’d had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother’s influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “The entire time, he’d only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn’t the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn’t have heard me. He’d never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.”

71. “The entire time, he’d only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn’t the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn’t have heard me. He’d never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “His simple words of implied tomorrows made me feel secure, adored.”

72. “His simple words of implied tomorrows made me feel secure, adored.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.”

73. “I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “Today, humans in cities will see a hundred beings in just minutes, naming them strangers, a dehumanizing designation.”

74. “Today, humans in cities will see a hundred beings in just minutes, naming them strangers, a dehumanizing designation.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed.”

75. “My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “My mother overstated the dangers of the world – invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts’ hoof-made gelatin never gave me mad cow. Mad cow was not a threat to me. And so I thought: most risks weren’t truly real.”

76. “My mother overstated the dangers of the world – invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts’ hoof-made gelatin never gave me mad cow. Mad cow was not a threat to me. And so I thought: most risks weren’t truly real.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren’t, and so anything – great and terrible – felt possible to me now.”

77. “And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren’t, and so anything – great and terrible – felt possible to me now.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.”

78. “Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.”

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Aspen Matis Quote: “I could not deny that in this attractive city, without compelling assignments or any deadlines to reach for, all painful catalysts for growth had been eliminated, erased from my existence like the rogue lines in a sketch – the unexpected marks that make the picture’s expression passionate and real, gone now. Living here, I was growing complacent again, seduced by a stagnant state of mind I hated to indulge –.”

79. “I could not deny that in this attractive city, without compelling assignments or any deadlines to reach for, all painful catalysts for growth had been eliminated, erased from my existence like the rogue lines in a sketch – the unexpected marks that make the picture’s expression passionate and real, gone now. Living here, I was growing complacent again, seduced by a stagnant state of mind I hated to indulge –.”

— Aspen Matis

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