Quotes About Journey

There are times in our lives when we must move forward with faith, and actually take some steps into the dark, before the promised blessings come.

Increasingly, I learned that the great spirits of religious traditions do not solve all questions but live in the questions, and return to them again and again, not as a circle returns, but as an ascending spiral comes to the same place, each time at a higher level.

We are not physical creatures having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual creatures having a physical experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For all with the courage to explore, God awaits.

Sometimes it seems that a plan is a useful illusion until life figures out where you really should be headed.

For me art is a spontaneous journey on the crest of the Tao's wave

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.

As we "press forward to what lies ahead," the transformation we desire already "lies within us.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.

Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Perhaps real "faith" involves seeing ambiguity not as an enemy, but as a vital part of the journey.

Mr. Nath and I talked further about the pilgrimage. Examining his hand he said, 'I wonder what it will look like after I finish this pilgrimage.' What do you mean?' I asked. 'Do you expect this pilgrimage to change your hand?' It must,' he replied. 'This pilgrimage changes one's life. The change must be evident in the lines of one's hands.

Where are you going?" Turing had asked. "Nowhere." "Me too.

Kira was on her way, unhinged on top of everything else.

David Lebovitz

David Lebovitz

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.

It is not all pleasure this exploration.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

David Livingstone

19th March, 1873.—Thanks to the Almighty Preserver of men for sparing me thus far on the journey of life. Can I hope for ultimate success? So many obstacles have arisen. Let not Satan prevail over me, Oh! my good Lord Jesus.