Sadhus Living Quotes & Sayings

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving. — Christine Taylor

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union. — Michael Gove

I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged motion was what first differentiated us from the apes. It freed our hands for tools and carried us onthe long marches out of Africa. As a species, we colonized the world on foot. Most of human history was created through contacts conducted at walking pace, even when some rode horses. I thought of the pilgrimages to Compostela in Spain; to Mecca; to the source of the Ganges; and of wandering dervishes, sadhus; and friars who approached God on foot. The Buddha meditated by walking and Wordsworth composed sonnets while striding beside the lakes.
Bruce Chatwin concluded from all this that we would think and live better and be closer to our purpose as humans if we moved continually on foot across the surface of the earth. I was not sure I was living or thinking any better. — Rory Stewart

A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States - Barack America! — Joe Biden

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat ... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat ... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but ... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all. — Gautama Buddha

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. — Nhat Hanh

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact. — Kurt Godel

And then, in the night, he'd go to the Empire again. The things that he'd felt the night before, he wanted to feel again. He wanted to understand. All at once, Dr. Carter's hand felt too heavy, — Anonymous