Between two worlds
life hovers like a star,
twixt night and morn
upon the horizon's verge.
-George Gordon Noel Byron
Man is a bridge between two worlds -
the bridge is a rainbow
from our world to the spiritual world.
Walk across taking one step at a time.
-Sivananda Radha
There is only one great adventure
and that is inwards toward the self.
and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
-Henry Miller
Remembrance makes people desire the journey:
it makes them into travellers.
- Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Man is always journeying towards the truth.
He is seeking, seeking;
for in his heart is the love of that which is real.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Come with me on a journey beneath the skin
We will look together for the Pan within.
-Mike Scott
The inner - what is it?
if not intensified sky,
hurled through with birds
and deep with the winds of homecoming
-Rainer Maria Rilke
The journey of life
is a journey within my consciousness.
-Imre Vallyon
The longest journey
Is the journey inwards
To the source of being.
-Dag Hammarskjold
My journey was entirely within myself,
and pointed to myself.
-Ibn 'Arabi
To the possession of the self
the way is inward.
-Plotinus
Inner space is the real frontier.
-Gloria Steinem
My course is set for an uncharted sea.
-Dante Alighieri
Direct your eyes inward and you'll find
a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered.
Travel them and be an expert in human cosmography.
-Henry David Thoreau
All journeys have secret destinations
of which the traveler is unaware.
-Martin Buber
Nothing can have as its destination
anything other than its origin.
-Simone Weil
I wandered in pursuit of my own self;
I was the traveler, and I am the destination.
-Muhammed Iqbal
There is no difference in the destination,
the only difference is in the journey.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
One's destination is never a place,
but rather a new way of looking at things.
-Henry Miller
The only real voyage of discovery
consists not in new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
Every step of the journey
is the journey.
-Zen Saying
Every day is a journey,
and the journey itself is home.
-Matsuo Basho
The journey is my home.
-Muriel Rukeyser
Do you know
Where you are
On your journey?
-Deng-Ming-Dao
There is a place
which one cannot reach by going anywhere.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
You don't have to travel anywhere
to get to the far shore:
the far shore's under your feet.
-Mitchell Ginsberg
One cannot travel within
and stand still without.
-James Allen
We may enter the infinite through the minute
no less than through contemplation of the vast.
-George William Russell
Having never left the house
you are looking for the way home.
-Vedic Saying
The door to the invisible
must be visible.
-Rene Daumal
Still round the corner
there may wait,
A new road
or a secret gate.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
It is not drawn on any map;
true places never are.
-Herman Melville
Nowhere physically
is everywhere spiritually.
-The Cloud of Unknowing
I will soar higher than the highest heavens,
I will dive deeper than the depths of the ocean,
I will reach further than the wide horizon,
I will enter within my innermost being.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Though inland far we may be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.
-William Wordsworth
Sail forth -
steer for the deep waters only.
-Walt Whitman
O Sailor
Sail along
Quietly
Into the horizon
Where the silence
of love prevails
Were heaven and earth
Whisper a love song
to each other.
-Kabir
And the thought of truth led me on.
I walked after it and did not wander.
-Wisdom of Solomen
Jaunting, journeying
To his own dayspring
-William Butler Yeats
Search no matter what situation you are in.
O thirsty one, search for water constantly.
Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole day?
From morn to night, my friend.
-Christina Rossetti
In our journey through life we move,
inwardly as well as outwardly,
between the light and the dark.
A sunlit, if often clouded, sky overarches us
and we voyage over sightless waters
through which glide the monsters of the deep.
This height and this depth contain within them
the dual poles which keep our being in balance
according as we respond, from a stable centre,
to their positive and negative pull.
-Hugh l'Anson Fausset
I was, indeed, then in the dark and struggled on,
unconscious of what I was seeking so earnestly;
but I had a feeling of the right,
a divining-rod that showed me where gold was to be found.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When traveling love's pathway,
never stop turning your soul
toward the eternal sun.
-Fayd Fayyadi
Listen within yourself
and look in to the infinitude of Space and Time.
There can be heard songs of the Constellations,
the voices of the numbers,
and the harmonies of the Spheres.
-Hermes Trismegistus
I have stretched ropes
from steeple to steeple;
garlands from window to window;
golden chains from star to star,
and I dance.
-Arthur Rimbaud
The pilgrim rising from one degree to another
discovers on each higher level
a subtler state,
a more entrancing beauty,
a more intense spirituality,
a more overflowing delight.
-Henry Corbin
And if the earthly no longer knows your name,
whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing
To the flashing water say: I am.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.
-Dante Alighieri
In the music of the rushing stream
sounds the joyful assurance,
"I shall become the sea."
It is not a vain assumption;
it is true humility
for it is the truth.
The river has no other alternative.
-Rabindranath Tagore
It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
-Arthur Rimbaud
There is one spectacle
grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle
grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.
-Victor Hugo
There is a wholeness of my being
that I have come to know.
My life is the sum
Of my body, mind and spirit
And more.
For I am immersed in a cosmic ocean
Which connects my life with All
and I am All.
-Danaan Parry
Ecstasy is the final stage
of intimacy with yourself.
-Deepak Chopra
I have attained the unattainable,
and my heart is colored with the color of love.
-Kabir
When the eternal truth is revealed
This Earth itself is the Pure Land,
This body itself is the body of the Buddha.
-Hakuin