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Famous Quotes By Phil Cousineau

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There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door. — Phil Cousineau

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Myths are lies that tell the truth. — Phil Cousineau

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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 ... all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating. — Phil Cousineau

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

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Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau

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

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Now is the time to lead your ideal life. — Phil Cousineau

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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 gods. It comes when you least expect it ... — Phil Cousineau

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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. — Phil Cousineau

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Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on? — Phil Cousineau

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

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The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do. — Phil Cousineau

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Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation. — Phil Cousineau

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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 discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony. — Phil Cousineau

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

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We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart. — Phil Cousineau

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Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths. — Phil Cousineau

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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 times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself. — Phil Cousineau

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Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are. — Phil Cousineau

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Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny. — Phil Cousineau

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That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek. — Phil Cousineau

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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, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. — Phil Cousineau

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The mythic is everywhere. — Phil Cousineau

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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. — Phil Cousineau

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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 secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey. — Phil Cousineau

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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 with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage. — Phil Cousineau

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But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire ... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life. — Phil Cousineau

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Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies. — Phil Cousineau

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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 utterly. — Phil Cousineau

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

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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; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find. — Phil Cousineau

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