Jiddu Krishnamurti, go for a walk https://t.co/tuC5I1bwY6
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
You can find this out, not just sitting there, but in your relationships. That is the mirror in which you will see, not by closing your eyes, or by going off into the woods and thinking up some dreams. In the actual fact of your relationship with man, woman, your neighbor, your politician, your gods, your gurus, you will observe your reactions, you... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew ... See more
Maria Popova • Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself
One way is to create time and space to be alone with yourself, to experience who you are when no one else wants anything from you and the noise has stopped.
Ken Robinson • Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
heightened spiritual awareness is the natural result of your choice to put the material world in its place and hit the road for an extended time. Where your treasure is, your heart will be also—and your decision to enrich your life with time and experience (instead of more “things”) will invariably pay spiritual dividends. Travel, after all, is a f
... See moreRolf Potts • Vagabonding
the art of sitting still (in other words, clearing the head and stilling the emotions)—and as I observed the sense of attention, kindness, and even delight that seemed to arise out of his life of going nowhere—I
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
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