Phil Cousineau Quotes

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• Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.
• Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.
• Now is the time to lead your ideal life.
• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place,…
• In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.
• The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.
• What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.
• Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.
• Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than…
• What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us…
• Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
• The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;…
• We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home
• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes…
• But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the…
• That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.
• Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the…
• Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the…
• I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey…
• Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

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