Existential Pathways

Table of Contents

• Paths of Love and Heart
• Personal Journey and Self-Discovery
• Spiritual and Enlightenment Paths
• Challenges and Hardships of the Path
• Path as a Metaphor for Life
• Decision Making and Choosing the Right Path
• Existential and Philosophical Reflections
• Path to Knowledge and Wisdom
• Paths of Creativity and Expression
• Other

Paths of Love and Heart

If a path ain’t got no heart, you must not follow it, not for any reason—but if it does got heart, then you’d best oblige yourself. On account of doin’ good ain’t got no end. Like a pebble thrown in a pond, one kind act ripples outward in all directions. It affects others—for the betterment. How far the ripple may travel—no one can rightly say.

The only path wide for us all is love.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

The only path wide enough for us all is love.

The only path that has any meaning is one that resolves your being in the feeling that your heart is empowered by doing what is necessary for your existence.

Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.

The right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. When there is peace and harmony within, these questions lose their meaning. (Songs of the Mist - Page 95)

For, the path of love is the royal road that leads mankind to Me.

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It’s a Path of joy. It’s a Path of singing and dancing. It’s not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.

The path of love is not a tedious path. It’s a path of joy. It’s a path of singing and dancing.

Personal Journey and Self-Discovery

The path ahead is wide open and you feel a sense of emptiness; in the moment, you realize your heart is empty and the one who can make it overflow with joy, never will.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

My path is lonely and made all the more so by all that I feel for you in so many ways.

God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step.

My only journey is one within my self...My only path is one through my soul.

The path you forge will be your happiest, most meaningful and most useful.

If it's in the heart to progress, the mind will establish a path.

The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

Spiritual and Enlightenment Paths

In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal - opening leads to further opening. The Buddha's meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.

The path you are on is the fabric of imagination, but it is kindled with the fires of hopes and dreams...

There is a path leading to the realization of Nirvana. But Nirvana is not the result of this path. You may get to the mountain along a path, but the mountain is not the result, not an effect of the path.

The path of light is the path of life.

Path of life, path of light!

This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

This path belongs to those who are not cold, whose hearts have not become stone, and whose heads have not become so swollen that they can’t hear the voice of the soul. This path will belong to those who, with all their strengths and weaknesses, will still serve others.

Every path is a journey to God. We just have to remember to open our heart again and again...

Challenges and Hardships of the Path

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.

Only on the hard path can you actualize your potential, grow, mature, have peak human experiences and enjoy epiphanies. The hard path alone allows you to fulfill yourself. The easy path destroys your soul.

the path i follow both spiritually and literally, is metaphorically much like that of the shape of a cross, there are always distractions crossing in front of me, shorter, easier ways to the left or right, that i can chose to follow, or instead follow my heart, steady down the longer way, often the more difficult way, the right way on my own path, to where i know i need to be

If the paths of life gets narrow, you must expand the paths in your mind so you can continue on your path by breathing comfortably until the paths of life expand!

Paths that address to the mind is superior to the paths that touch the heart!

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons – money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.

Path as a Metaphor for Life

May the pathways that have taken you along the road to loss, guide you along the road to healing.

Allow love, to illuminate the unknown pathways that are destined - to be traveled.

The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge your own path; your essence is at stake

The destination is only fulfilling when the path is your own; find the courage to blaze your own path, your true expression of essence is at stake.

We navigate many paths each day, but how many sooth our souls and nourish our senses? Be aware of where you walk because the path you take can change your very essence.

Although steady and slow are the trail to love, there is no path to see through without the engine of passionate and true. (Soar)

Failure is the path; beauty is the destination. We walk toward beauty on the path of failure. Which is to say that formation occurs at the interplay of failure and beauty.

Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this.

Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.

Decision Making and Choosing the Right Path

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Consider every path carefully, testing it in whichever way you feel necessary – then ask yourself, but only yourself, one question: ‘does this path have a heart?

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart’s desire, if not to fame and fortune.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons – money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.

The spiritual path is easy. It’s the only path that is.

Existential and Philosophical Reflections

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?

Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.

Through me is the way into the doleful city; through me the way into the eternal pain; through me the way among the people lost. Justice moved my High Maker; Divine Power made me, Wisdom Supreme, and Primal Love. Before me were no things created, but eternal; and eternal I endure: leave all hope, ye that enter.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Wide is the path to hate, narrow is the path to love, and even narrower is the path to enlightenment.

The path to mediocrity is wide; the path to greatness is narrow, and the path to genius is hidden; few find it.

There are many paths leading to One. These herbs carry within their fragile essence a secret of Life, Universe, Creation, and the secrets of Enlightenment. We all carry the Truth within, and every drop of water, every flower, every man intuitively knows it, no matter what the path we choose to follow is.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

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Path to Knowledge and Wisdom

As we fulfill our life's journey & path - let us remain trusting of the inner guidance of our Soul.

In every crisis, confusion and doubt, take the higher path — the path of patience, alertness, courage, understandings and love. Fears and uncertainties are temporary. In the higher path the light of happiness comes soon.

The mind is the key, the heart is the door, the soul is the corridor,the divine is the destination.The past is the key, the present is the door, the future is the corridor,the hereafter is the destination.The world is the key, the sky is the door, the cosmos is the corridor,the universe is the destination.

Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always there, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way." | "What is your path?" | "The path of someone seeking love." | "And love's path is really complicated." | "Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?

Virtue is the path to God,faith is the highway,and love is the staircase.

The path on that God is seen, is that the path of true love.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length – and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

Paths of Creativity and Expression

Art it’s the only path I can go down as it is all I can exist doing.

Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom.

Path of light, path of life.

Kramic Path (Step by Step Path) is Gnan (knowledge) which in the last becomes Science (Spiritual Science).

The Beautiful Path is not a place outside of yourself, but rather a place you carry within you everywhere you go.

not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion – this is the path; this is the way.

Other

Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always ther, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way." | "What is your path?" | "The path of someone seeking love." | "And love's path is really complicated." | "Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?

Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.

My pathways are defined by the Creator.

The living word of God is the light for my path.

Visit the path you fell in love, because the path you fell in love will never visit you!

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.

The way to Nirvana sublime;Tread the way to end the play,Now is the moment in time.Tread it now or tread it neverKnow thou weary traveller,Spread the happy news far and near;The Mara’s reign is over.

What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy-it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

In every crisis, confusion and doubt, take the higher path – the path of patience, alertness, courage, understandings and love. Fears and uncertainties are temporary. In the higher path the light of happiness comes soon.

My path in life leads right into your arms.

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life.

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