Quotes About Journey

Sag Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor, Mystic, New Bedford, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard.

Truth is a uniquely challenging pursuit because the very thing that wants it is the only thing in the way of it.

Dedicating one's life to lofty spiritual ideals is every bit as life-defining and purpose-giving as the quest for heaven or power or money or love. Just because there's a flashing neon sign above the door that says "Free Enlightenment! The Shortest & Easiest Way! The One True Path!" doesn't mean that what goes on inside is really about enlightenment, or that the people who go in really want it.

The various forms of spirituality and religion are not the path to truth, but the antidote to it.

The price. Of truth. Is everything.

You observe events and you allow the flow of things to do the steering and you go where you go.

Why is everyone seeking and no one finding? Because they're not seeking truth or growth or change, they're seeking peace of mind. The rest is just dressing.

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

An objective observer might look at the vast majority of spiritual seekers today and classify them as spiritually self-lobotomized. They set out to find life and discover truth, and wind up sitting in a dark room repeating a meaningless syllable, eyes closed, brain silenced, convinced that they're actually making a great journey.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

Life is a series of abandonings.

Vauxhall. I like to use the public housing a few blocks away for my little adventures.

often started in a different hemisphere.

Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

The First Days The

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

There are deeper reasons to travel—itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?

There is no road home.

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.