The Great Wide Way

Ten Quotes about the Journey

I have always loved the metaphor of the journey as a way to explore the deeper spiritual journey we all find ourselves on, whether we acknowledge that journey or not.

Some of the first books I read were adventure stories: Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon’s Mines, The Hardy Brothers Mysteries and a whole host of others. One of my favourite adventure stories is Robert Heinlein`s wonderful, ‘Glory Road
’. All these years later nothing is more fun that sitting down with a rip roaring adventure story.

I’ve also written poetry about “The Journey”. See ( The Green and Golden Way )

Here is my celebration of the journey: Ten Quotes about the Great Wide Way whose dusty path we all tramp along finding our own adventures.

1 “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Source: Mahatma Gandhi

2 “The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.”
Source: Dag Hammarskjold

3 We each walk our own path. All paths lead to the same destination but different beings arrive at it at different times. Each path is like a mystery that unfolds as we travel it. The journey itself is half the fun!
Source: Mr. Prophet

4 The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

Source: Marianne Williamson

5 The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
Source: Lois McMaster Bujold

6 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, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.

Source: Wendell Berry

7 To have a world where peace and harmony reign supreme, we must journey to the self and discover that part of our inner being which invokes divine energy and honours the beauty and dignity of all living things.

Source: Micheal Teal

8 It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Source: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

9 It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Source: Francis Bacon

10 Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Source: Henry van Dyke

I hope you enjoyed the quotes. Which ones are your favorites. Feel free to make a comment.

Nick

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