Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

We have so largely lost track of the sacred that we are even becoming incapable of committing sacrilege.

— Gregory Bateson (Angels Fear)

Culture preserves the map and the record of past journeys so that no generation will permanently destroy the route.
The more local and settled the culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert.

— Wendell Berry

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

— Bertrand Russell

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully you leave something good behind.
— Anthony Bourdain