BEAUTIFULLY CHILL FLOATZ

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”

- Brian Tracy

“Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.”

- Stephen C. Paul

“Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.”  

- Christopher Morley

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun or relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

- Herodotus

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”  

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.”  

- Douglas Pagels

“You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.”

- Alan Cohen

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”  

- A.A. Milne

“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”

- John Lennon

“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.”  

- Unknown

Read more about Beautiful Chill, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Welcome to a Week of Beautifully Chill, Wild Chill and Chill Fishing.

Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Chill in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 07.27.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!

PHOTO CREDITS:

1. Photo: by Duncan Rawlinson. “Sweeping Rain and Relaxed Swimmers.”
2. Photo: by Dan Nevill. “Snooze.”
3. Photo: by Mochila de Viajes. “Relax.”
4. Photo: by Martin Cathrae. “Relaxing.”
5. Photo: by DoryMan. “Paddling Drift Creek.”
6. Photo: Courtesy of Dennis’ Photography. “A Fisherman’s Boat.”
7. Photo: by Amy Mcculloch. “Inle Lake, Stilts, and Cool Water.”
8. Photo: Courtesy of Casa Del Paraiso. Sailing.
9. Photo: Courtesy of Shinnyo-en Hawaii. Toro Nagashi Ceremony in Oahu.
10. Photo: by Nick Kenrick. “I Took Some Time Out for Life.”