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“pilgrimages to the Holy Land. And when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' - 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“Unconventional by nature, I was free to express my most extreme self to my heart and soul’s content in the backcountry.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“lives. It stimulated growth and enriched our lives. All it required was imagination.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“learned through experience that when we imagine in detail an adventure that excites us, research it, and start talking about it, inevitably the idea begins to manifest itself in your life.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“No longer strapped to the superficial clutter that I left behind, I began to slow down and think deeper.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“I called it a sabbatical, an extended Leave of Absence from all the demons that had been eating my soul.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“I sold all my material possessions to buy the freedom I needed to follow adventure wherever it might take me.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“sought to put my physical and emotional energy into something positive, energizing, and expansive rather than allow myself to dry up and waste away in a life of unwanted expectations.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“One of the downsides of livin’ lots of lives is you leave a lot of folks behind.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost & Found: Navigating New Lives & Love

“I remember being amused at how easily I could adjust to such a dramatic change in physical environment and lifestyle, yet struggle sorely with relatively simple problems back home.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“It struck me as odd that the memorable moments of our lives – the parties and celebrations and the toasts made to commemorate those moments – were not, in fact, memories that lived on without maintenance.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“So, as Jeremiah Johnson was advised, I kept my nose in the wind and my eyes along the skyline.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“A dark rider had come to collect me and I fought the urge to join him in anger and depression. He battered me with all manner of torturous thought: bone-breaking hate, gut-wrenching regret, and fantasies of self-justified revenge. The Observer knew that it was only illusion, only a chemical flash fire, but I burned alive in the emotions created by the storm. I struggled to find sleep, but sleep did not come that night.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“One moment, I was listening to the surround sound of Nature and the next, silence. I felt a presence. Nothing to be scared of but something unusual. Like something watching me.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“that we must make time for adventure or run the risk of living life without it.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“realized a new definition of the word ‘free’ and a feeling like liberation washed over me. Without realizing it, I had completed one of the hardest parts of the trek before I even left town. I sold all my material possessions to buy the freedom I needed to follow adventure wherever it might take me.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man

“No matter what I read or how much I contemplate, God is beyond my comprehension,” I said. “I catch little glimpses; I recognize the truth when I see it, when I feel it in something I read. It’s like remembering something I already know… and there’s a lot of it in that book.”
― Patrick Taylor, Lost & Found: Navigating New Lives & Love