Occupation: Author Birth: November 26, 1952
We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home.
The mythic is everywhere..
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler..
Myths are lies that tell the truth..
That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek..
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything..
Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice..
Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It co….
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly..
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic natu….
But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we….
What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives..
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it..
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say..
In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred..
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipi….
Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light..
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more ….
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, ev….
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's ne….
But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way ….