Quotes About Journey

Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.

If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

Of course, clergy cannot talk about a further journey if they have not gone on it themselves.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

We are created with an inner drive and necessity that sends all of us looking for our True Self, whether we know it or not. This journey is a spiral and never a straight line. We are created with an inner restlessness and call that urges us on to the risks and promises of a second half to our life. There is a God-size hole in all of us, waiting to be filled. God creates the very dissatisfaction that only grace and finally divine love can satisfy.

Ken Wilber described the later stages of life well when he said that the classic spiritual journey always begins elitist and ends egalitarian. Always!

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual journey is this: wisdom and love do not come from success but from continuing failure.

There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong "container" or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

Those who walk the full and entire journey are considered "called" or "chosen" in the Bible, perhaps "fated" or "destined" in world mythology and literature, but always they are the ones who have heard some deep invitation to "something more," and set out to find it by both grace and daring.

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.

one consistent and clear revelation in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, it is that the God of Israel is the one who turns death into life (see Deuteronomy 32:39, Romans 4:17, 2 Corinthians 1:9). When we can trust the transformative pattern, when we can trust that God is in the suffering, our wounds become sacred wounds and the actual and ordinary life journey becomes itself the godly journey, trusting God to be in all things, especially

Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.

We wear the chains we forge in life

Non basta una vita One life isn't enough

In their brief absence a few of the more adventurous or desperate wives would seize the opportunity to hire a sitter and meet another of these boy-men, permanent whiskey-dicks, most of them, out at the Lamplighter Motor Court for a little taste of the road not taken, only to discover that it was pretty much the same shabby, two-lane blacktop they'd been traveling all along, just an unfamiliar stretch of it that nonetheless led to pretty much the same destination anyhow.

Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.

maybe people did wear chains of their own forging, but often those chains were half complete before they'd added their own first heavy link. Maybe completing other people's work was the business of life.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance, there's no telling where it could lead.

We stand before a hundred doors, choose to enter one, where we're faced with a hundred more and then choose again. We choose not just what we'll do, but who we'll be. Perhaps the sound of all those doors swinging shut behind us each time we select this one

said, "All right, I give up. We have to drive to Acapulco, and we have to take the only road, and I don't see how we're going to get there." "What we'll do," he said, "is drive as far as Taxco, and then scout the territory. We can't make plans of our own until we know how they're set up. And they've got to be south of Taxco

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.… Man is something that must be overcome.

La mente umana segue il sentiero archetipico numinoso che parte dal suo interno.