Quotes About Exploration

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Siempre hay un tiempo para marchar aunque no haya sitio a donde ir. Tennessee Williams

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here and now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding

Oddly enough, writing again has made me WANT to get out more. I mean, if I don't start living life, how can I write about it?

Into the Volcano (Wood 2008) holds out the promise of

Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out.

Death was the twin brother of life and the more interesting of the two. It was secretive, unknown, mysterious. It was inevitable and forever when it came. It was a dark, infinitely chambered fortress waiting to be explored. Most entered only once and then only because they had no choice.

Jethen Amenades

After all, it was like that for all living things—they could never know everything they wished to know. That would never change.

Travel down that road far enough and you forget entirely where you came from. The journey becomes the destination in a twisted sort of way. The need to acquire more of everything, to possess as much as there was to possess, was insatiable.

you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out.

Travel down that road far enough and you forget entirely where you came from. The journey becomes the destination in a twisted sort of way.

When we are told to live in the moment, perhaps it is because that is where we know ourselves best. Before long, we find ourselves standing on the rim of a deeply forested valley that stretches away in front of us for several miles in three directions.

It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people's minds travel along the same road traveled by everyone else, never straying off the route of conventional wisdom. Makers know no such boundaries. They have a rare ability to make their own roads of thought. Their minds venture through the wilderness of all that exists, combining random bits of knowledge in ways that have never been imagined before.

Before Sunrise.