Walking Meditation Quotes

“with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

“No other sound can match the healing power of the sounds of nature.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Once at a workshop, the instruction was to walk mindfully over to the lunchtime food across the room. In that short walk across the room, I noticed how automatically I get ahead of myself—how I lose track of these miraculous feet on the ground and miss the space in between. And I’m beginning to suspect that most of life is “in between.”
― David Rynick, This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons

“Several years ago I was in Seoul, South Korea. The police had blocked traffic so that we could have a walking meditation in the city. When the time came to lead the walking meditation, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't walk, because hundreds of journalists and people with cameras were closing in. There was no path to walk. So I told the Buddha, "Dear Buddha, I give up, you walk for me." The Buddha came right away. He walked and people made a path for the Buddha to walk.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing

“You walk as if you kiss the earth with your feet, as if you massage the earth with your feet. There is a lot of love in that practice of walking meditation.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Everyday Peace Cards: 108 Mindfulness Meditations