how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
-Louise Bogan
Our life is a stream
and in every stream it is the source which is most important.
Our source, however, lies where mere reason cannot reach.
Wouldn't it be interesting to follow the stream
as far back as possible?
-Hans Ulrich-Rieker
Light in the darkness
is the central paradox in any journey.
-Marion Woodman
The spiritual journey
is the soul's commingling with ordinary life.
-Christina Baldwin
Behind our existence lies something else
that becomes accessible to us
only by our shaking off the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Turn inward for your voyage!
For all your arts
You will not find the Stone
In foreign parts.
-Angelus Silesius
What can we gain by sailing to the moon
if we are not able to cross the abyss
that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton
The greatest explorer on this earth
never takes voyages as long
as the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
-Julien Green
The longest journey most of us have to take
is from the head to the heart.
-Carl Jung
never takes voyages as long
as the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
-Julien Green
The longest journey most of us have to take
is from the head to the heart.
-Carl Jung
As surely as there is a voyage away,
there is a journey home.
-Jack Kornfield
It is the journey to the truth
that convinces the traveler that he has arrived.
To be dropped on the top of Mount Everest by helicopter
is not to gain the glory of the peak.
-William Gass
It is a journey we have to make on foot...
To go through the wilderness, over mountains,
to swim rivers in order to get to the other side,
to risk all sorts of dangers on the way,
that is the kind of journey we have to make in spiritual attainment.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
There are no milestones to count;
one cannot say, 'I have gone so many miles
and there are so many still before me.'
This does not belong to a spiritual journey.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Little by little one travels far.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
And the world cannot be discovered
by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and joyful,
but we arrive
at the ground of our feet
and learn to be home.
-Wendell Berry
If you travel far enough,
one day you will recognize yourself
coming down the road to meet you.
And you will say
YES.
-Marion Woodman
Within ourselves is not very far
yet is so far that one's whole life
is sometimes not always long enough to get there.
-Julien Green
The journey is difficult, immense.
We will travel as far as we can,
but we cannot in one lifetime
see all we would like to see
or to learn all that we hunger to know.
-Loren Eiseley
This journey has been known throughout history by many names:
the Tao, the Way of Christ, enlightenment, the shamanic journey,
kundalini awakening, the middle path, the Royal Road,
the path of Initiation, the hero's journey, or simply "going Home,"
to name only a few.
-Jacquelyn Small
