The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Find your flow and remember to see how many unexpected things come into your life by living this way. It will be scary at times. Let the fear bring you to life.

when you’re in deep touch with your wild self, you know you have enough and are enough. From that place of enough, you act in service, because that’s what feeds you. It’s a lot of individuals going on that journey of discovery that will create transformation.

We didn’t go out and get these jobs; we created them out of following the inner trail. We kept making our lives as trackers.

To live as a tracker is how we take responsibility for transforming the planet. Imagine the effect that millions of people tracking from a different center could have on our dominant cultural story. The magic of the wild self is that each of us is guided in our own unique way, and yet together the process charts a new way of living for us all.

It feels short to me, almost anticlimactic. But Ren and Alex were never motivated by the outcome. They live on the trail. And now, so do I. Epilogue In the weeks and months after that fateful day tracking the lion, I became obsessed with writing.

Humility is the liberation from illusions of dominance, control, and power. I give up the importance of my life to instead become a part of life.

We are a society that lives in denial of death and so we are a society that denies life. But out here, how flimsy we are, with no boundaries between us and nature. What a wonderful teacher of how to live.

10 The Hippo Tunnels It is the magic hour. The light is now “the light that makes everything beautiful,” as the Shangaan call it.

As all the lions walked away, one female turned to look back down the game path toward us. Unable to hear or smell us, she has felt something deep in her instinctual body. At high levels of any art form, the practical gives way to the mystical.