Cousineau Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.

Phil Cousineau

#6. Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

Phil Cousineau

#7. 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

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

Phil Cousineau

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The mythic is everywhere.

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

#14. That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.

Phil Cousineau

#15. 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

#16. We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

James Vila Blake

#17. Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Phil Cousineau

#18. 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

#19. If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

Dick Couch

#20. When we stop narcissistically focusing on our need to get better, that is what it means to get better!

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Vanna Bonta

#27. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

#30. Every path leads to the same god.

Meera Syal

#31. 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

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

Phil Cousineau

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

Phil Cousineau

#34. We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Jimmy Carter