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Quotes about journeys that are spiritual: While Lao Tzu may have said: The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, in todays internet age, your own journey of a thousand web-sites begins with one click. Deepak Singh My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness. Deepak Chopra. Which of course is followed by:
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. Proust Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience. Francis Bacon For in their hearts doth Nature stir
them so My favorite thing to do is to go where I've never been. Diane Arbus Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys. Richard R. Niebuhr Yet the Lord pleads with you still:
Ask where the good road is, Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. Alexander Eliot The longest journey The world is a traveler’s inn. Afghan saying You cannot travel the path until you have become the path. Gautam Buddha The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one’s preparations. Nigerian saying Journey derives from the French for distance traveled in one day (jour) We usually don’t look. We overlook. Alan Watts An inch of surprise leads us to a mile of gratefulness. Bro David Steindl-Rast Things are always different from what they might be. Henry James I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me. Liz Greene It is not the road ahead that wears you out – It is the grain of sand in your shoe. Arabian proverb Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, Seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. William Stafford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be. Selms Lagerlof Life is not the number of breaths one takes, but the number of breaths one does not take upon seeing mountains, forests and buildings. Anonymous If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. Anonymous To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth. Marguerite Yourcenar Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God. Sant Kirpal Singh |