Quotes about Journey

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.

Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.

If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

Of course, clergy cannot talk about a further journey if they have not gone on it themselves.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

We are created with an inner drive and necessity that sends all of us looking for our True Self, whether we know it or not. This journey is a spiral and never a straight line. We are created with an inner restlessness and call that urges us on to the risks and promises of a second half to our life. There is a God-size hole in all of us, waiting to be filled. God creates the very dissatisfaction that only grace and finally divine love can satisfy.

Ken Wilber described the later stages of life well when he said that the classic spiritual journey always begins elitist and ends egalitarian. Always!

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual journey is this: wisdom and love do not come from success but from continuing failure.

First half of life folks will seldom have the courage to go forward at this point unless they have a guide, a friend, a Virgil, a Tiresias, a Beatrice, a soul friend or a stumbling block to guide them toward the goal. There are few in our religious culture who understand the necessity of mature, internalized conscience so wise guides are hard to find. You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moses' leading you on any exodus.

There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong "container" or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.