Jiddu Krishnamurti, go for a walk https://t.co/tuC5I1bwY6
On these walks, with people or without them, any movement of thought was absent. This is to be alone.
J. Krishnamurti • The Beauty of Life: Krishnamurti's Journal
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,” he wrote, “to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.” Of course, vanishing into the woods isn’t a realistic option for most of us. Some might even say it smacks of running fr
... See moreAlexander Green • Beyond Wealth
There is a frontier we seldom cross, a threshold into the interior of our own being, where for hours we might wander and meet no one. It is a solitude that demands strength, a remoteness akin to that of a child watching the affairs of adults—those mysterious figures who moved with purpose, their actions veiled by the incomprehensible weight of resp... See more
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens. KABIR The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit
... See moreJon Kabat-Zinn • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Meditation helps here. But so does going on unplanned walks to see where they lead you, using a different route to get to work, taking up photography or birdwatching or nature drawing or keeping a journal, playing I Spy with a child: anything that draws your attention more fully into what you’re doing in the present.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
So let us put that aside for a moment; but inside, what is your life? Inwardly, what is the future? Are you going to be like the rest of the world, always hunting pleasure, always troubled with a dozen psychological problems?”