“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Aphorism #19
Interglacial (2004)
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
3
73 poems (1963)
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
“Nothing is impossible for the one who treads the path of meditation”
Om Swami (1979) Indian mystic
A Million Thoughts (2016)
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work