Question: Why do places of vast natural beauty — such as the ocean, mountain ranges and so on — kindle our aspiration?
Sri Chinmoy: Vastness and height always kindle our aspiration. God has a special Dream to fulfil through vastness and height and it is God’s most significant inner Dream inside vastness and height that kindles our aspiration.
Sri Chinmoy, Aspiration-Tree, Aum Publications, 1976