Quotes About Journey

the exhausted crew finally reached the broad expanse of the river.

It is our wish and our will that of all the lands and islands that you shall discover

Although Travels included Polo's experiences closer to home, enlivened with shrewd observations

only 67 ships and ten thousand men survived, and many of those survivors perished as they tried to return to Spain.

In the morning, Magellan dispatched a rescue team. When they found only the abandoned longboat

Marco Polo aprendeu a ultrapassar a sua condição de estrangeiro no Império Mongol, para chegar à conclusão de que, agora que estava em casa, tinha-se tornado uma vez mais um estrangeiro.

they had arrived at the Strait of Magellan

Later, an English ship caught sight of the abandoned beasts swimming in the dark green sea on a journey to oblivion.

If a sailor devoted years of his life to getting there and back, and if he managed to bring home a small sack stuffed with spices

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth

And on it he indicated the route he proposed to take.

Magellan's conception of the world he planned to explore was fatally inaccurate.

were inspired by Ptolemy. Had Magellan comprehended the size of the Pacific

without the Pacific Ocean to inform his calculations, the estimated length of his route came to only half the actual distance.

predicted that it would take him at most two years to reach the Spice Islands and return to Spain with ships bulging with precious cargo.

he would have to do was find a way to get around or through South America

After three busy days in one of Tenerife's harbors, Pigafetta wrote, "We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose

and he would be at the doorstep of the Indies.

set sail for the Spice Islands.

The maxim 'Know thyself,' can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.

When you allow your self to travel freely, the self will unerringly move and bring to you exactly those experiences, people and things that you need. A New World will be born from out of your Unicity.

The journey to marifat (becoming the mirror of Allah) may be long or it may occur at your next breath, but in the meanwhile, we must encounter duality. Duality is as 'Divine' as non-duality. The light and the dark must be regarded as sacred, so we do not fall into faulting Allah for the thorns on the rosebush.

Those who have had contacts with extraterrestrials also report having strong allergic reactions. Indeed, trauma (usually in childhood) seems to be a prerequisite for close-encounters. It is, as some of you may know, an indispensable part of the journey to become a shaman.

And if we continue our journey back into our unconscious we will discover our alien and inter-stellar origins.