"When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a
ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred
simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival
on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis."
- Robert Fulghum, From Beginning to End
- Robert Fulghum, From Beginning to End
"The soil is the great connector of our
lives, the source and destination of all."
- Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
"Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove
them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots
firmly in the earth."
- William Vogt
- William Vogt
"My eyes already touch
the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance―
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces."
- The Walk by Rainer Marie Rilke, Translated by Robert Bly
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance―
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces."
- The Walk by Rainer Marie Rilke, Translated by Robert Bly
"Afoot and light-hearted, I take
to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune— I myself am good fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Strong and content, I travel the open road.
The earth—that is sufficient;
I do not want the constellations any nearer;
I know they are very well where they are;
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women—I carry them with me wherever I go;
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune— I myself am good fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Strong and content, I travel the open road.
The earth—that is sufficient;
I do not want the constellations any nearer;
I know they are very well where they are;
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women—I carry them with me wherever I go;
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)
I believe you are not all that is here;
I believe that much unseen is also here."
- Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road," Leaves of Grass, 1890.
- Ways of Walking
- Walking Meditation
- Walking Quotations
- Walking Bibliography
- Circle Walking: Bagua
- Walking the Labyrinth
- Garden Walking
- Walking Qigong
- Walking Staff
Philosophy practiced is the goal of learning. - Thoreau
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