The Joy of Quiet

Photos via The Cool Hunter.

Let's escape to a little spot in Brazil where no one can find us. We'll learn to enjoy the quiet. No need for checking our inbox, planning our next career move, or figuring out how to accomplish more.


We'll sit in the sun, and just be.


We'll sleep when we're tired, and rewrite our definition for happiness.


Not perfection, but perfect calm.

Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”

-Pico Iyer, "The Joy of Quiet," New York Times

This post was also inspired by Daily Cup of Yoga's "Learning to Sit Alone." To learn more about how you can adopt zen habits and be happy with what you have, I recommend this blog.