it just happens

"My mind stopped harassing itself and peacefulness came, a peacefulness born of the sweet absence of harsh thoughts and the perfect presence of everything around me just being. Such times just happen. There’s no way to make them happen. All you can do I guess, is put yourself in places where they might happen, want them enough so that the wanting becomes a prayer even if you can’t pray it, and just do what comes naturally."

From Gerald May’s The Wisdom of Wilderness