Richard Briers Quotes

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

Running is very therapeutic for me. I tend to have a louder brain, so when my mind is moving, I go for a run. It's very calming.

I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.

My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.

It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.

Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.

I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.

When I'm training, I don't think about anything else.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.