Quotes About Exploration

He fell asleep and again dreamt of being rowed by two myrtle trees, except this time they rowed through the stars to the moon, and it was quiet, and while everything went on forever the stars were as knowable and as safe and as comforting a world as that of the rainforested rivers.

They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet. Beneath

They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet.

vessels with mini-subs and helicopters attached. As well as undertaking the more conventional

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

As he made his way, he ploughed his bare feet through the mud as a child, head bowed as a child, interested as a child neither in where he was going nor in what might happen next but only in the furrow his foot opened that vanished a moment later.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend. What

we search on our own and we search on behalf of ourselves. Whatever

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

I'm forever amazed at how much fun it is to leave. Just to leave. Arriving has its points, but leaving is inexhaustible.

Space, to use a cliché, is big.

Richard K. Morgan

The odds are pretty good in favour of no one ever finding you. Space, as textbooks are given to saying, is big.

Half the things we dig up, we have no idea what they are, and we still sell them as fucking coffee-table trinkets. Right now, someone back on Latimer has probably got the encoded secret of a faster-than-light drive mounted on their fucking living room wall." She paused. "And it's probably upside down.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step . . . . Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. C. G. JUNG

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. CLAUDE BERNARD

Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown.

Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive

Today, I view myself as a pilgrim. I take stock of the distances I have traveled. I take time to map the route I now choose.

Writing goes much better when we don't work at it so much. When we give ourselves permission to just hang out on the page.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.