Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes

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

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

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.

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

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

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

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

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.