and the ground was so soft and bouncy, you just wanted to lay down and rest even when you weren't tired...

...there was a sound coming from the wind in the leaves that was so much like the sound of running water...

...it was a magic time, that time between the cold dark morning and the blazing sun of the day...

...can you feel the mist in the air?

...the surf made a sound like thunder that rolled all the way down the beach ...

...the forest grew so quiet at that moment that you could almost hear the sun rise...

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

The way to do is to be. Lao Tsu

...the lotus is the symbol of enlightenment...

... the sand inbetween my toes and under my feet was already so hot from the sun...

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

Groucho Marx

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi