Quotes about Direction

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.  The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities -- what we do with, and how we manage our time.  The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction -- what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.  In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

I love Jesus, who said to us:
Heaven and earth will pass away.
When heaven and earth have passed away,
my word will remain.
What was your word, Jesus?
Love? Forgiveness? Affection?
All your words were one word:

Wakeup.

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where - ' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
' - so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.'

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

"Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward true north. The adjustments we must make are in those 'small things,' but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home."

I do say there's a difference between being goal-free and goal-less. I'm definitely not an advocate of being goal-less, which is being lost and directionless, and sitting on your butt eating bon-bons, watching Jerry Springer. To me, goal-free is moving forward through life with purpose and passion, but not knowing how it's going to turn out. And not caring how it turns out, I guess, is probably even more important.

My suggestion is that we should have a sense of direction and let life unfold naturally, rather than trying to force it down a particular path, which is what we typically try to do. This will allow you to have a much more experiential view of life, allowing life to come to you. You will meander and weave, and change direction as you find the things you're really passionate about.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one. 

It isn't about what I have, it's about where I'm going - it's about the people I'm trying to help get there.

Think with your Heart Feel with your Mind

Kites rise highest against the wind-not with it.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

One watch succeeded another through the day, though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel. Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys. The changes in the warmth and dampness of the soil, the falling of the sunlight patches, the altering movement of the beans in the light wind, the direction and strength of the air currents along the ground - all these were perceived by the rabbit awake.

Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances .  There is consistency in this journey.  As in the beginning, so shall it be in the middle and the end.  Love does not tempt us to leave what we know, only to leave us without direction, resources, synergy and flow.

Be Your Own Guru

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

The simplest questions are the most profound.

    Where were you born?
    Where is your home?
    Where are you going?
    What are you doing?

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

A life without direction goes nowhere.

A life without direction goes nowhere.

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are. Far more then our abilities.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Greatness means leading the way.- No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatnesses. It is only a question of some one indicating the direct