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“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

People Humans Hard Fall Practice Style Walking Mountain Appreciate Lifetime Manage Skulls Unstable

Author:Randall Munroe

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

Stills Science Practice Environment Tree Huge Walking Bigger Sticks Environmental Ran Stakes Living Things Resent Vines Trunks Walking Sticks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.”

Mind Helping Sleep Practice Meditation Walking Activity Eating Sitting Intention Everyday Helping Others Everyday Life Dressings

Book:The great path of awakening: the classic guide to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for cultivating the heart of compassion

Source: The great path of awakening: the classic guide to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for cultivating the heart of compassion

“I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.”

Trying Play Bigs Would Be Company Practice Walking Golf Naked Gallery Choir

Book:DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Source: DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”

Ifs Want Book Reading Practice Path Meditation Walking Travel Substitutes

Author:Bill Porter

“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

Ifs Dream Body Today Energy Practice Meditation Tomorrow Walking Mindfulness Sitting Cells Concentration Today And Tomorrow

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.”

Thinking Practice Walking Doctors Medicine Pharmacy Practice Of Medicine

Author:Caroline Myss

“If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?”

Ifs Doe Dream Beautiful Night Girl Practice Wonderful Stage Walking Thrown Receiving Chasing Your Beautiful Ovation Beautiful Picture

Author:Wu Han

“We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.”

People Practice Walking Mass Dislike Despise Recreation Walkers Staples Climbers

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.”

Has Beens Talking Practice Walking Conviction Hearing Profession Honestly Reformation Hearing God

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.”

Said Practice Meditation Walking Mindfulness Enlightenment Awakened Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”