Quotes about Journey

Three steps forward, two steps back.

When you put the Gospels in someone's life who hasn't walked any journeys yet, who hasn't lost, suffered, longed, and thirsted for anything, they will use it for power - I promise you. For personal power, reputational power, economic power, because that's where the ego always goes. We will use God for our own purposes which is the ultimate idolatry. But if you have made the journey into powerless somehow, I will be happy to put the gospel in your hands.

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.