Quotes about Journey

The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.

Death is largely a threat to those who have not yet lived their life. Odysseus has lived the journeys of both halves of life, and is ready to freely and finally let go.

In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.

There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.

The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.

I believe that there are two necessary paths enabling us to move toward wisdom: a radical journey inward and a radical journey outward. For

The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it. So