Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Pg. 206

“Japhy began to shriek and hoot and whistle and sing, full of pure gladness. Nobody around to hear him. This is the way you’ll be on top of Mount Desolation, this summer, Ray. Ill sing at the top of my voice for the first time in my life.”

Japhy and Ray have just climbed mount Desolation. Once they are at the top Ray notices the peacefulness and the isolation of society. When Japhy is up there he feels free with no worries and is able to act anyway he pleases and feels with no one judging him. Japhy has come to spots like this where he can feel completely free, not that Ray has had some of these experiences with Japhy he will be able to go out on his own and feel total freedom.

Pg. 209

“Try the meditation of the trial, just walk along looking at the trial at your feet and don’t look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by.”

Ray and Japhy are walking while so Japhy yelled back to Ray this to show him that you can find meditation anywhere around you and with in you. You don’t have to be sitting in a quite place but that even watching the trail’s twists and turns has a way to clear the mind and give you total peace.