Gandhi promoted through the marching movement a dimension of firmness and endurance: to keep going.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Because that intensity is what people seek in pleasure: that moment in which the faculties of feeling are overwhelmed, awakened, shaken up and challenged. It becomes flat with repetition, warmed over, tiresome, always the same.

That low-key walk, without any big mystical union with Nature, that walk without pleasure, but taken as a hygienic necessity, that one-hour walk, but taken every day, every single day without exception, brings to light three important aspects of walking.

It is thought born of a movement, an impulse. In it we can feel the body’s elasticity, the rhythm of a dance. It retains and expresses the energy, the springiness of the body.

resist with your entire soul by standing up for as long as possible, never surrendering any of your dignity, and without showing the slightest aggression or doing anything at all that might restore, between the whipper and the whipped, any reciprocity or equivalence in a community of violence and hate.

The key virtue of the satyagrahi is internal selfdiscipline. It means being ready to take blows without returning them, go quietly when unjustly arrested, and suffer humiliation, slander and insult without replying.

To marvel at the beauty of the day, the brightness of the sun, the grandeur of the trees, the blue of the sky: to do that takes no experience, no ability.

Walking drains anger away, it purifies.