"I can only meditate when I am walking. When I
stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
“As a single footstep will not
make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the
mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep
mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to
dominate our lives.”
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
"The silence of landscape conceals vast
presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality.
With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy of the seasons, giving
itself unreservedly to the passion of the goddess. The shape of a landscape is
an ancient and silent form of consciousness. Mountains are huge contemplatives.
Rivers and streams offer voice; they are the tears of the earth's joy and
despair. The earth is full of soul ….. Civilization has tamed place. Left to
itself, the curvature of the landscape invites presence and the loyalty of
stillness." 4
- John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
- John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
"To find new things, take the path you took
yesterday."
- John Burroughs
- John Burroughs
"Hiroshi Nose, M.D.,
Ph.D, a professor of sports medical sciences at Sinshu University Graduate
School of Medicine in Japan, who has enrolled thousands of older Japanese
citizens in an innovative, five-month-long program of brisk, interval-style
walking (three minutes of fast walking followed by three minutes of slower
walking, repeated 10 times). The results have been striking. Dr. Nose reported
that "Physical fitness ― maximal aerobic power and thigh muscle strength ―
increased by about 20 percent, which is sure to make you feel about 10 years
younger than before training. The walker's symptoms of lifestyle related
diseases (hypertension, hyperglycemia and obesity) decreased by about 20
percent, while their depression scores dropped by half."
- Reported by Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times Magazine, "What's the Single Best Exercise?", 2011
- Reported by Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times Magazine, "What's the Single Best Exercise?", 2011
- Walking Meditation
- Walking Quotations
- Walking Bibliography
- Circle Walking: Bagua
- Walking the Labyrinth
- Garden Walking
- Walking Qigong
- Walking Staff
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