Phil Cousineau

Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself,…

— Phil Cousineau

Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

— Phil Cousineau

“derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots…

— Phil Cousineau

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

— Phil Cousineau

Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This…

— Phil Cousineau

Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.

— Phil Cousineau

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us…

— Phil Cousineau

I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor…

— Phil Cousineau

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

— Phil Cousineau

“the startling line in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, where Captain Hook is described: “The man isn’t wholly evil; he has a…

— Phil Cousineau

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

— Phil Cousineau

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon…

— Phil Cousineau

But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no…

— Phil Cousineau

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence…

— Phil Cousineau

“David W. Orr writes, in The Nature of Design, “We are losing the capacity to say what we really mean and ultimately…

— Phil Cousineau

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than…

— Phil Cousineau

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

— Phil Cousineau

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

— Phil Cousineau

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

— Phil Cousineau

“For instance, if we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word opportunity, we have a chance to see hidden beauty shining from…

— Phil Cousineau

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of…

— Phil Cousineau

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

— Phil Cousineau

Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity…

— Phil Cousineau

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when…

— Phil Cousineau

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

— Phil Cousineau