Quotes About Direction

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

Nunca llegarás a la Meca, porque te encuentras en el camino a Samarcanda.

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

All men are not like trees. For some it is best to be moving where the spirit leads, like our cousin the wind.

It is very important what not to do.

if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

right here." He pointed out an area

We keep walking the right direction in spite of not being able to see the path.

He who listens and knows all will always guide me in my passions.

Plan did I, perhaps too much, yet if not, how can one see where one is heading?

The right way and the easiest are two entirely different paths.

The vision guides you; you do not guide the vision.

The point is to make sure that your actions and your words have the right intentions behind them; to maintain the possibility and capacity to uplift, shift, and empower people, yourself included, to head in a better, positive direction

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

A veces solo tenemos una oportunidad, solo tenemos un segundo para decidir el curso de nuestra vida.

Holzwege são, em alemão, os caminhos na floresta abertos pelos lenhadores para poder transportar os troncos depois do corte: por esses caminhos não se vai para lugar algum, só se entra na floresta até chegar a um ponto de onde só dá para voltar. Deveríamos todos percorrer com alegria, na nossa cultura e no nosso pensamento, caminhos que não precisam ir a lugar nenhum, que apenas nos dão acesso a alguns buracos na floresta.