W. S. Merwin Quotes

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.