Quotes About Journey

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Life is all about practicing for heaven. p 101.

Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.

Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.

We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.

the Eucharistic bread and wine are not a prize for the perfect or a reward for good behavior. Rather they are food for the human journey and medicine for the sick. We come forward not because we are worthy but because we are all wounded and somehow "unworthy.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.

Death is largely a threat to those who have not yet lived their life. Odysseus has lived the journeys of both halves of life, and is ready to freely and finally let go.

In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.

There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.

The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.

I believe that there are two necessary paths enabling us to move toward wisdom: a radical journey inward and a radical journey outward. For

The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it. So

Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in—but only to be moved out from.

As Bill Plotkin, a wise guide, puts it, many of us learn to do our "survival dance," but we never get to our actual "sacred dance.