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, and this is it, this is it, this is it! Deepak Singh
Which of course is followed by:
For those who have Awareness,
a hint is quite enough.
For the multitudes of heedless
mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for 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
Then people long on pilgrimage to go
And palmers to be seeking foreign strands
To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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,
The godly paths you used to walk in, in the days of long ago.
Travel there, and you will find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. Alexander Eliot
The longest journey
Is the journey inwards
Of him who has chosen his destiny. Dag Hammarskjold
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
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