Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
God can be realised through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Who knows this truly, and who will now declare it, what paths lead together to the gods? Only their lowest aspects of existence are seen, who exist on supreme, mystical planes.
All know the way; few actually walk it.
-Bodhidharma
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
-Paulo Coelho
Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
-Richard Matheson
"What Dreams May Come"
