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A Philosophy of Walking

“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B – the pilgrimage, the promenad

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“All music is an invitation to lightness.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: Music, Sounds That Incite Magic

“The lighter a thought, the more it rises, and becomes profound by rising — vertiginously — above the thick marshes of conviction, opinion, established thought.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, In Praise of the "Superficial"

“Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing Tips, Writers with Movement

“You must know how to obey in order to know how to command.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: Widsom, Leadership, Being Humble

“Ruptures are difficult, because of the suffering caused by the removal of a bond. But in its place, we soon receive a boost.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: From Pain: Growth, Struggle, The Obstacle Is The Way

“Outside. Out of doors.”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: outside, Leave Society

“When you are walking, nothing really moves: it is rather that presence is slowly established in the body. When we are walking, it isn’t so much that we are drawing nearer, more that the things out there become more and more insistent in our body. The landscape is a set of tastes, colors, scents whic…”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: Slow Living, Ways To Stop Time From Progressing, Enjoying Nature, Taking In The World, Absorption

“Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optional. If you want to go faster, then don’t walk, do something else: drive, slide or fly. Don’t walk. And when you are walking, there is only one sort of…”

— Frederic Gros, amazon.com

Tagged: In Praise of Walking, It's The Simple Things In Life