Quotes About Exploration

During the next eight years Bell lived in an Aboriginal community of about six hundred people near Alice Springs.I "I dropped out of school, stopped wearing shoes, and went hunting with people every chance I got," she said. She learned to extract water from desert frogs and snacked on "witchetty grubs," a type of Australian caterpillar that lives among tree roots. "I was very fortunate. I had the most blessed childhood."2

There are too few words for who and what human beings are to each other. Language is a territory still mostly uncharted. We are the cartographers, every day, still mapping the human heart.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you've never done before? There's only one way to find out.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

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

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

The trip changed all that. Stirring the murk of a life ill-fitting, Something More was perceptible though without name or form. Something More was the genesis of a map, not one handed to me but rendered with each step taken, a skill seasoned by a cruise gone bad.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

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.

The adventures of a lifetime begin with "Yes.

Diving in IS testing the water.

Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Ten years ago I wondered, "How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?" I've answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.