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“I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.”

Helping Jobs Walking Yoga Sitting Heels High Heels Aeroplanes

Author:Anja Rubik

“Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.”

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”

Thinking Knows Mind Lying Walking Sitting Lying Down Zen Proverb

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“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.”

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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

“It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.”

Ifs Two Kids Felt Feet Mines Walking Sitting Legs Wet Sock Weighing

Author:David Bowick

“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”

“Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

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Book:The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

Source: The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.”

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Book:Zen and Now

Source: Zen and Now

“The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.”

Hard Work Too Much Meditation Masters Hard Work Return Walking Sitting Monasteries Walking Meditation Diminishing Returns

Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.”

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Author:Bear Grylls

“When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.”

Writing Book Enjoy Rooms Walking Exercise Sitting Desks Avoided Bothered Marking Time

Author:Maeve Binchy

“Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.”

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“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

“O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.”

Knows Country Home Lord Worst Walking Sitting Country Life

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.”

Ifs Knows May Energy Know How Meditation Minutes Flower Walking Ten Perception Mindfulness Sitting Anger Twenties Embrace Come Up Following Breathing True Nature Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.”

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Author:Thubten Yeshe

“It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking the halls of Congress, sitting at bars and attending parties where you get to knock back some brews with Hill staffers, you don't have a handle on the almost numbing amount of bullshit that goes on.”

Ifs Party Impossible Goes On Amount Internet Walking Sitting Congress Bars Handle Hills Damn Halls Free Speech Bullshit Attending Numbing

Author:Brock N. Meeks

“What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.”

Knows Writing Sacrifice Poet Walking Sitting Adults Sensitive Notebook Sitting Around Writing Things Down

Author:Marc Maron

“Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.”

Ideas Different Stories Three Fire Nice Dog Walking Sitting Red Wine Drinking Forests Telling Stories Sitting Around Different Ideas Red Wine Some Nice Wine With Friends Complete Happiness

Author:Jane Goodall

“I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.”

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Author:Brett Dennen

“Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.”

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Author:Gennadius of Constantinople

“We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Doe Walks Known Creativity Creative Tree Particular Walking Sitting Creator Remembered Doing Nothing

Author:Rajneesh

“I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.”

Thinking Three Walking Sitting Standing Showers Great Times

Book:The Complete Walker IV

Source: The Complete Walker IV

“I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.”

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Book:Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire

Source: Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire

“It's one of those things that hits you when you're not even looking for it. It's a moment when you find those words surging through your mind - "I feel so alive right now." There's varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.”

Feels Mind Moments Acting Alive Walking Right Now Degrees Sitting Beach

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Eye Lying Attitude Practice Meditation Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Steady Coming Out Posture Wherever You Are Lying Down

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.”

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Author:Pam Houston

“I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.”

Ifs Sides Walks Walking Sitting My Friends Crosses Down And Legs Over You Jail Splits Chill Sitting Down

Author:Curren$y

“We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.”

Steps Walking Sitting Over It Pavement

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.”

Imagine Walking Sitting Empty Ridiculous Carbon Groceries Jars

Author:William McDonough

“Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.”

Alive Walking Sitting Beach

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Most of the writing that I do is a complete train of thought process. I'll just be walking down the street or sitting on the toilet or whatever and something will pop into my head and I'll record it on my phone and then over the next little while it'll develop a little more in my head.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Ifs Thinking Play Helping Would Be Kids Night Loneliness College Poet Walking Sitting Rain All Night Pointless Up All Night Bourbon Sitting Up

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

Ifs Knows Wells Stills States Feelings Desire Loses Walks Walking Sitting Everyday Ill Illness Well Being Trekking Strolling Sitting Still

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”

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Author:Holly Black

“As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.”

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Author:Astrid Lindgren

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

Thinking Knows Art Feelings Imagination Imagine Modern Walking Pure Eating Highest Music Is Sitting Etc Composer Imagine That Schubert Modern Music

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.”

Source: Beauty Queens