The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh
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The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh
Over the hours of walking, I found myself thinking again about time—and especially about its relationship to the human scale. You can’t walk a mile as fast as you can scroll one. But when moving yourself physically through space, you are also much more aware of how fast and how far you walk (your body certainly remembers to remind you). I suppose t... See more
Jon Gacnik • On observing time /╲/╲/╲
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This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
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in praise of slowing down
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So much in our lives is fast-paced. Walking is a slow undertaking. It is among the most radical things you can do.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
The vital thing to understand- and the point that I want to stress the most- is that walking is not an activity. Or rather, it should not be conceptualised as and reduced to being a mere activity. It is much more than that because it is much less than that. Walking is one of the great forms of inactivity and in a world of striving and consumerism a... See more
Thomas J Bevan • Walking as Inactivity
The trick is to be somewhere with no purpose other than pleasure and to take your time. We need to learn to saunter rather than stomp, and to meander rather than march.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
Walking lets you read the world — and much like the slow, contemplative mental processes involved in reading a book, the pace with which one moves through the world while walking allows for a different, deliberative kind of seeing . You notice more. You think more.