Quotes About Wandering

My initial solution came in the form of night rovings, like an owl or a coyote. I had been stagnating in the house too long, and some glowing ball of spirit in me threatened to fade to nothing, and I feared it might be like fire—you need fire to make fire, and you must never let the last of it die.

man—I think his name was Frank—hauled me out of there and asked who I belonged to, but by then I'd forgotten. By then I thought I belonged to the earth and the sky, and the sharp, pushing blades of grass that grew for me. Simon came and found me in time, and from

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel.

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home.

O tu, stella randagia, astro disperso, che forse cerchi, nel tuo folle andare, la porta onde fuggir dall'universo!

Ich ging im Walde so für mich hin, und nichts zu suchen, das war mein Sinn.

I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills...

When you have become quite wild, then perhaps one of the wild things will come to take a look at you, and one of them may take a fancy to you, not because you are suffering and cold, but simply because he happens to like your looks. When this happens, the wandering is over, and the Indian becomes a Shaman.

this phrase was meaningless, for no matter where the Jew wandered, if he took with him the Talmud he was

In the first place, as the homeless wanderers of the twentieth century prove, the question of nationality no longer necessarily involves the question of allegiance. Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

I wandered from village to village. A few days here, half a year there, like a butterfly on the summer's breath.

I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.

Wind has no home in the world, and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe, and therefore returns to God.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge.