Quotes About Exploration

That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, and founders of cities and states. That is the father you could rescue; the ancestor you could become. And he is to be discovered in the deepest possible place, as that is where you must go if you wish to take full responsibility and become who you could be.

The conversation of mutual exploration, by contrast, requires people who have decided that the unknown makes a better friend than the known.

Es la tendencia expansiva, exploratoria del hombre, su curiosidad innata, la que constituye a la vez una gracia salvadora y un error mortal.

even the oldest and most familiar places retain an ineradicable capacity to surprise you.

Así pues, la anomalía es -alimento- espiritual en el sentido más literal: lo desconocido es la materia prima a partir de la cual se fabrica la personalidad en el curso de la actividad exploratoria. El acto de rechazar la anomalía transforma la personalidad en algo hambriento, en algo senil y en algo cada vez más temeroso del cambio, pues cada fracaso a la hora de enfrentarse a la verdad erosiona la capacidad de enfrentarse a la verdad en el futuro.

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

Where might you learn how to play? Everywhere . . . if you are fortunate and awake.

Almost all learning happens in spite of fear, because to learn something you have to explore something new and that is usually something that is frightening. If you are willing to face something that is frightening, you can garter something of value.

There is no enlightened one. There is only the one who is seeking further enlightenment.

The Land You Know, the Land You Do Not Know, and the Land You Cannot Even Imagine

The philosopher's stone remains undiscovered in the gutter; and the information hidden in the round chaos, beckoning, remains unexplored. Such omission is the voluntary refusal of expanded consciousness. After all, the pathway to the Holy Grail has its beginnings in the darkest part of the forest, and what you need remains hidden where you least want to look.

That's where we are simultaneously stable enough, exploring enough, transforming enough, repairing enough, and cooperating enough.

Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge.

In their poverty, they explore the city, and they discover some ratty, quasi-criminal area that has seen better days. They visit, look, and poke about, and they think, "You know, with a little work, this area could be cool." Then they move in, piece together some galleries, and put up some art.

In all these triumph stories, the hero has to go into the unknown, into an unexplored territory, and deal with a new great challenge and take great risks. In the process, something of himself has to die, or be given up, so he can be reborn and meet the challenge. This requires courage, something rarely discussed in a psychology class or textbook.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

You positively need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.

But the delights of his previous life were ashes in his mouth and he ventured forth a third time

You can't long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.

Lo desconocido es el enemigo eterno del Homo Sapiens y su mayor amigo, que desafía constantemente la facilidad individual para la adaptación y la representación, que empuja constantemente a hombres y mujeres mayores profundidades y hacia cimas más altas.

The significance test is the detective, not the judge.

Mathematics is not just a sequence of computations to be carried out by rote until your patience or stamina runs out—although it might seem that way from what you've been taught in courses called mathematics.

Recognizing protective behavior is an important stage of exploration. Protections are strategies we use to keep our unconscious fears from consciousness.