Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

Those who understand nature walk with God.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Aikido is not an art to fight with enemies and defeat them. It is a way to lead all human beings to live in harmony with each other as though everyone were one family. The secret of aikido is to make yourself become one with the universe and to go along with its natural movements. One who has attained this secret holds the universe in him/herself and can say, 'I am the universe.'

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

The end of art is peace.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.