“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
—George Michael
This hike is a slice of paradise. The light in the morning and evening are delightful and I love the feeling of exhilaration once I walk out of the bush. The after glow of hiking lasts for days. I find harmony in the outdoors.
“Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.”
—Bernie Siegel
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
—Wayne W. Dyer
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realising who you are at the deepest level.” —Eckhart Tolle
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” ― Mother Teresa
Windy, windy Port Macquarie (Mid North Coast, NSW), with blue bottles, big beautiful blue skies and hot but pleasant summer highs.
So much of this trip was about water – the ocean, observing the water-covered earth from NASA at the Observatory, refuelling the ‘tank’ and coming back home (in myself) after the big year that was 2018; learning to be fluid, to let go, to surrender to the great deep of life, to renew the spirit.
Blue bottle clusters! Yikes.
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
— John Muir
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”― Holly Black
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” — Richard Bach.
The epic highs at North Brother Mountain!
“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
― Nayyirah Waheed
May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness and riches Today, tomorrow and beyond. ~Irish blessing
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.” – Alan Watts
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It was wonderful to spend time in Port Macquarie, to be still and to take in a new year. We stayed near the beaches, close to Flynns Beach, where the sunrise made me feel at ease, but more than anything, at home.
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit. What sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”— William Penn
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder
“Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”— John Lubbock
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” — Mother Teresa