Path

The spiritual world is like the natural world - only diversity will save it.

Just as the health of a forest or fragrant meadow
can be measured by the number of different insects and plants and creatures
that successfully make it their home,
so only by an extraordinary abundance of disparate spiritual and philosophic paths
will human beings navigate a pathway 

through the dark and swirling storms that mark our current era.
"Not by one alone," wrote Symmachus sixteen centuries ago,
"can we arrive at so tremendous a secret."
-Margot Adler

As many paths as there are persuasions.
-Anonymous

The person attempting to travel two roads at once 

will get nowhere.

-Xunz

What is truly a part of our spiritual path

is that which brings us alive.

-David Steindel-Rast

The ultimate path is without difficulty.
Just avoid picking and choosing.
-Sengtsan

The treasury of practices
is not apart from the Path.
-Daian

There is a difference between knowing the path 

and walking the path.

-Morpheus

All paths lead to the same goal: 

to convey to others what we are. 

-Pablo Neruda

Cover you path
With the fallen pine needles
So no one will will be able
To locate your
True dwelling place.
-Ikkyu Sojun

The Path is not to be found anywhere
except in human service.
-Idries Shah

If anybody asks you what the Path is about,

It's about generosity. It's about morality. 

It's about concentration.

It's about gaining insight through focused self-observation.

It's about the cultivation of subjective states of compassion and love based on insight.

And it's about translating that compassion and love into actions into the real world.

-Shinzen Young

I have seen the ancient path,
the path trodden by all the Perfected Awakened One
of olden times.
This is the path I follow.
-Buddhist

When your mind is like a wall,
then finally you can enter upon the Path.
-Daian

The bright and dark paths out of the world have always existed. 

Whoso takes the former, returns not; he who chooses the latter, returns. 

-Bhagavad Gita

Even a mind that knows the path 

Can be dragged from the path. 

-The Bhagavad Gita

The path that we have to traverse,
is finer that a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword.
-Amar Das

I know the path.
It is straight and narrow.
It is sharp as a razor.
I rejoice to walk on it.
When I slip I weep.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Originally the Path is wordless;
with words we illustrate the Path.
Once you see the Path,
the words are immediately forgotten.
-The Blue Cliff Records

Do not say
"I follow the one path of the Spirit",
but rather
"I have found the Spirit, walking on my path",
for the Spirit walks on all paths.
-Kahlil Gibran

Indeed the very idea of a spiritual path is a misnomer.

After all, how can you move toward something that,

like Divinity, is already by definition everywhere?

-B. K. S. Iyengar

Coming and going, the waterbirds
don't leave a trace,
don't follow a path.
-Dogen

The great Seal is attainable in one stride.
It is deluded ignorance to divide it
Into grounds and paths.
-Shang

...a real vision that there is no "path"
because there is nowhere to go,
because, from all eternity,
he was the unique and fundamental center of everything.
-Hubert Benoit

But still, on the ocean, there is
no path
only the needle's trembling dance
north...
but here near at hand
in the center
of your body,
the rose fire
of the compass
blossoming
with direction.
-David Whyte