From the book How to Walk. Thich Nhat Hanh How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh: 9781937006921 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “When you walk, if you are aware that you are alive, that is already enlightenment. You are aware that you have a body; that is already enlightenment. You are aware that your feet are strongContinue reading “Excerpt: Walking is a celebration.”
Category Archives: Literature
Essay: Barefoot is honest
Because sometimes, the most meaningful parts of life are not found when we are fully guarded and perfectly prepared.
They are found in those quiet, simple moments when we dare to walk through the world just as we are — uncovered, attentive, and awake.
Excerpt: Stopping and Finding Calm.
From the book “How to Walk.” – Thich Nhat Hanh How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh: 9781937006921 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Walking is a wonderful way to calm down when we are upset. When we walk, if we focus all our awareness on walking, we are stopping the thinking, storytelling, blaming, and judging that goesContinue reading “Excerpt: Stopping and Finding Calm.”
Walking 101: Walking poles or a single stick
And then in the early to mid forties she became pole curious. The bravado of youth was fading with the intermittent niggles in her left knee. She started posing questions and watching the mantis-like formation of walkers, passing her out on the track.
Walking the long light
By the time you feel thirsty, you are already behind, already running a deficit that your body has been quietly accumulating for the better part of an hour (or day!).
Podcast: ABC Radio National – Erling Kagge
Erling combines the thinking of silence and walking and articulates with such clarity.
Walking Sticks 101:The Morning Stick or Rambler
In the world of stick walking, there is a stick for all occasions. A rabologist is a person who collects, studies, or has a strong passion for walking sticks and canes.
Quote: A la sainte terre
Hiking – “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in theContinue reading “Quote: A la sainte terre”
Essay: The faster you walk
A cause of some consternation for the Order. Slow walking is good for the soul. Perhaps we need a mix of pace. The important thing, is that one is out there moving. The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
Quote: Robert Macfarlane, The old ways : A journey on foot
I’ve read them all, these old way wanderers, and often I’ve encountered versions of the same beguiling idea: that walking such paths might lead you – In Hudson’s phrase – to ‘slip back out of this modern world’. Repeatedly, these wanderers spoke of the tingle of connection, of walking as seance, of voices heard alongContinue reading “Quote: Robert Macfarlane, The old ways : A journey on foot”
