Quotes About Movement

Move. Get going. Blessed is he who leaves.

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

La morte implica la privazione del diritto al movimento, perché la vita è movimento. Il corpo ucciso smette di muoversi. L'uomo è un corpo.

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And if he did hesitate for a moment, he would usually come to the conclusion that the truest argument was an old one: the Earth is round. Let us not be too attached, then, to directions. And this was understandable. To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return, since nothing exerts such a draw as emptiness.

It's a complete mystery that every challenge triggers vital forces within us. I really did feel better—only my left leg was still racked with pain, like an electric current, so I was walking on it stiffly, as if it were a prosthesis. But once I had to move the ladder, I stopped worrying about my Ailments. I forgot about the pain.

She goes, for example, to Chistye Prudy, changes from Sokolnicheskaya to Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya, and goes to Medvedkovo and then back to the other side of the city.

j'ai pris conscience que ce qui est en mouvement – en dépit de ses dangers – sera toujours meilleur que ce qui est immobile, et que le changement sera toujours quelque chose de plus noble que l'invariance ; car ce qui stagne est voué inévitablement à la dégénérescence, à la décomposition et, en fin de compte, au néant, alors que tout ce qui évolue saura durer, et même éternellement.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

A wheel moved slowly, bearing up into the sky empty carriages shaped like boats.

La sédentarité nous importe aussi parce qu'elle est un renvoi du voyage permanent.

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Master Hakuin emphasizes kufu in movement or practical training in Zen. He says, "To practice Zen in movement is superior to doing so in the stillness of meditation.

In disciplining ourselves to practice Zen in movement, we never cease to become mu with all our might or count the frequency of our respiration at all times and in all places just as we do when we are in meditation. Therefore, it is our ideal to train ourselves to attain immovability in movement. As I have been saying, however, even professional Zen monks cannot always practice Zen in movement except those endowed with the greatest capacities.

Kawajiri Hogin writes in his Zazen no Shokei, "When you are engaged in some work or other, you become one with it. In the intervals of your work, you immediately resume your contemplation on the koan. For instance, when you are smoking by the fireside or doing something like that, you are considered to be in the intervals of your work. At such a time you are absorbed in the contemplation on the koan free from dualistic thoughts and imaginations. This is one example of kufu in movement.

By emptying ourselves we become one with objects, deeply absorbed in our work. To be thus thoroughly one with everything with which we are confronted is the true essence of mu. It is the state of both physical and spiritual liberation, to which kufu in movement should point.

our everyday life, filled with noise and lively activities of people, must be the most convenient dojo for kufu to practice Zen in movement.

In the Jiki-shinkage-ryu (the Straight-Mind-Shadow school of swordsmanship) there is a basic set of movements called Hojo which is indeed the most magnificent I have ever known. It is accompanied by deep breathing marked by the sound "Ah" when inhaling and "Um" when exhaling.

On one hand, kinhin is a kind of exercise to ease our fatigue after sitting, and on the other, it is training to bring about the oneness of movement and calmness.

We are apt to instantaneously come out of samadhi as soon as we are on our feet for a few moments. This is because we are lacking in the full power of Zen concentration. By getting to our feet and walking in kinhin while we are one with susoku or koan, we discipline ourselves to realize the oneness of tranquility and movement so that we may not be controlled and upset by our environment in our everyday life.

Though I hear witchery referred to as a religion by the modern movement, this is not how the traditional witches originally described it to me. They described it more as a philosophy, a way of life, and even a set of techniques to make visible changes through working invisible means and by direct encounter and exchange.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.