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
Quotations
Path
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.
-Vedas "Rig Veda"
All know the way; few actually walk it.
-Bodhidharma
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.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagawvad Gita 4.37-38"
The person who tries to stand still on the path will find that it has vanished.
-Carl Japikse
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.
-Carlos Castaneda "Carlos Castaneda"
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
To have a body is to suffer. Those who understand this, detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
