Quotes About Exploration

After three busy days in one of Tenerife's harbors, Pigafetta wrote, "We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose

and he would be at the doorstep of the Indies.

Eventually, Magellan gave the Indians a name—Pathagoni, a neologism

This was nearly the same mistake that Columbus had made over and over

and accomplished mariners dared to venture into the Ocean Sea, as the Atlantic Ocean was then known.

during his four voyages. And it was a mistake that would be corrected only at the cost of great suffering

the next day, bearing precious guanacos, and received still more gifts in trade, but then he was not seen or heard from again.

set sail for the Spice Islands.

The king of Portugal had dispatched not one but two fleets of caravels to arrest him—a drastic measure

generation earlier, Manuel's father had sent ships to intercept Columbus.

he learned much from his avowed enemy: their trade routes, their science and mapmaking

Magellan also received a secret communiqué from his father-in-law, Diogo Barbosa

And if we continue our journey back into our unconscious we will discover our alien and inter-stellar origins.

Dualistic, patriarchal religion cuts humanity off from an entire pole of being, calling it evil and devilish. This type of religion tells people that exploring this pole of the human being is sinful and will eventually lead to being completely cut off from God, the Lord of the other pole. What a terribly destructive image this is. It leads people to shun and cut themselves off from one half of their beings!

For instance, many people are so afraid of facing the UNKNOWN that they cling to various paradigms: a given religion, philosophy, psychology, or political party. When these people decide to take a naked look at their beliefs, suddenly the enormous amount of energy expended in shoring up the paradigm is liberated to manifest one's desire.

Potential requires exploration.

Allow yourself to wander and travel through your world for one day without resorting to dividing the world up into pairs of opposites. The Journey Without Aim is often propitious.

If you keep thinking your usual thoughts and doing your usual habitual actions, then the NEW and DIFFERENT cannot enter into your LIFE!

some individuals choose to move to remote and exotic locations

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

An English man does not travel to see English men.