Phil Cousineau Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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
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.

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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?

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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