Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Things that are present - whether it's a conversation with someone who is really grounded in the moment, a movie that feels authentic, or a moment in nature where you feel nothing but the present. It motivates me to truly ground myself, breathe, and push forward. Crashing waves.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

When you're surrounded by majestic Norwegian nature, it's very easy to start thinking about stuff you don't have time to in everyday life.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

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

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

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

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.

Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

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

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

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.