Behinds Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being…

— Robert M. Pirsig

In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should…

— Jamling Tenzing Norgay

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spiritual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills,…

— Olympia Dukakis

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

— John Muir

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance…

— Anthony de Mello

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

— Jon Voight

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that…

— Sigurd F. Olson

“Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a…

— David Steindl-Rast

People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.

— Sulak Sivaraksa

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of…

— Val Kilmer

The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it,…

— Henry Louis Gates