117 quotes found
“A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us fo...”
“Lord, set me a path by the side of the road.I pray this be a part of your plan,Then heap on the burden & pile on the load, And I'll trek it the best that I can.Please bless me with patience, Touch ...”
“Lord set me a path by the side of the road,Pray this be a part of your plan.Then heap on the burden and pile on the load'n I'll trek it the best that I can.Please bless me with patience; touch stre...”
“When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the begi...”
“Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddi...”
“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a ...”
“It was a fossilized path: the will which had cut this gash out of these solitary places so that the blood and sap would flow there was long since dead - and dead too were the circumstances which ha...”
“My path is not a better path, it is simply a different path.”
“Find your path in life and travel on it.”
“Every body has a unique path to travel.”
“Life is what happens when you're making other plans. So does your rsum. It takes on a life of its own if you let it. Some people try to map out their paths and plan every step, but in reality, life...”
“the universesets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that were on the right path. (p.XV)”
“If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look there, I suppose."Chronicler's forehead wrinkled. "What do you mean, exactly?"Kvothe paused for a lon...”
“So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknown.”
“When the path ignites a soul,there's no remaining in place.The foot touches ground,but not for long.”
“Mystics are not themselves. They do not existin selves. They move as they are moved,talk as words come, see with sightthat enters their eyes. I met a womanonce and asked her where love had led her....”
“It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by it...”
“Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course.Like light-- In lig...”
“Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.”
“PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.”
