
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
Variant: Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
“They’ll say you’re walking down the wrong path, if you’re walking down your path.”
Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
Voces (1943)
“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”
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73 poems (1963)
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)
Anecdotes of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo, from Anecdote 17, "The Law of Nature," p. 13.
Anecdotes of Oyasama
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge