The Path of Living Deeply 🐌
“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth — not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” — T.L Rese
1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul sli... See more
Henry David Thoreau Quote
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for a walk.... See more
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No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capita
Maria Popova • The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest.
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All good things are wild and free.
Maria Popova • The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
“Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself — and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.” )
The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”
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Gabrielle Roth
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Gabrielle Roth
