Mindful Exploration Quotes

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together.

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

Every moment is travel - if understood.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.