Joseph Monninger Quotes

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Dancing allows me to go away and not have to think of what I'm doing next.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.