Ray Stannard Baker Quotes

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The only journey is the one within.

I have discovered that inner search by far is the most uncharted domain and it needs great courage and determination to cut through the dense vegetation of the mind so to speak before arriving at the core.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.