Quotes About Journey

When you are on the right path, invisible hands will come to your aid.

If you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself.

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath. This was the dream of a stutterer.

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one that you ARE living.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recongnize your own depth.

Deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this indeed that you wanted and required for your own ultimate illumination. That was a great big wonderful thing that you thereupon brought to pass: not the you of course, that you now suppose yourself to be, but the you that was already there before you were born. You are not now to lose your nerve! Go on through with it and play your own game all the way!

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Don't think of what's being said, but of what's talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love?   The goal of the hero's journey is yourself, finding yourself.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has lost the sense of experiencing life.

What does the soul truly want is a story

It is, indeed, very little that we need! But lacking that, the adventure into the labyrinth is without hope.

Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, "always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

We have to let go of our plans if we are to become the person we are meant to be.

Not all who hesitate are lost.