Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

I keep saying this about a mental state, but the more that I am physically active, the more that my mind is clear.

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.

I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.

As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We're not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.

Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.

I have an overactive mind and I find that doing exercise clears it.

I like to keep my mind and physical state alert.

If you really care about your body, then your mind starts to work better.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody has ever thought that by running meditation is possible - but I know, I used to love running myself. It happens. If you go on running, if you run fast, thinking stops, because thinking cannot possibly continue when you are running very fast. For thinking an easy chair is needed, that's why we call thinkers armchair philosophers; they sit and relax in a chair, the body completely relaxed, then the whole energy moves into the mind.