Walking Meditation Quotes

• The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Letting Go, Worry

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• Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Attitude

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.90, Parallax Press

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• Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

  Nhat Hanh

  Yoga, World, Path

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Sky, Breathing

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Practice

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  Mary Oliver

  Arena, Conscious, Walks

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• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Father, Climbing

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
  internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
  there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Fighting, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

  Pam Houston

  Sitting, Movement, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

  Leslie Stephen

  Journey, Men, Play

  Sir Leslie Stephen (2016). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.462, Library of Alexandria

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• Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

  David Fontana

  Illumination, Mind, Unexpected

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• One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Men

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• Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

  William Jacob Holland

  Journey, Men, Hiking

  William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

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• The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

  James H. Austin

  Work, Too Much, Return

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.9, MIT Press

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• Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Anger, Breathing

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• I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Morning, Journey, Fog

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

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• You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Enlightenment, Mindfulness

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• The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Ignorant, Mindfulness

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Hours, Walks, Meditation

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