It’s a photo with a glacial mountain, white clouds against blue sky, a few deep purple flowers, and a cairn in the shadow of another peak.

Cairns are human-constructed stacks of stones that may mark a trail, or a grave, or the apex of a mountain. In some places, hikers are expected to carry a stone with them to add to the cairns, a sort of ongoing repair system since the elements tend to break down the structures. I know because I read up on them today after finding the photo on www.hotpixel.ch

I also read about Meister Eckhart (1260-1328). I don’t think I’d ever heard of him before. A German minister/philosopher who was tried as a heretic. Apparently, he quietly survived the trial. A couple of quotes:

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. "