Paula Cole Quotes

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

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

I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.

I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.

The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

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

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

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

Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.

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.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.