The Map Is Mostly Words, and Simon Sarris Shows The Way
it is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
There is no map for this pilgrimage we are on; there is no fixed path. And that is a good thing, because following the paths that others have set for us, the paths that the system confines us to – that is the cause of the problem.
Sharon Blackie • If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
“A genius without a road map will get lost in any country, but an average person with a road map will find their way to any destination.”
Peter Voogd • 6 Months to 6 Figures
I believe we also make maps because we are desperately, primally afraid of being lost. The tighter we cling to them the more we confuse them for something real. And when we do that, they stop showing us where to go and start leading us in ever-decreasing circles. If we can hold them lightly, however, they can open our perspective and contextualise ... See more
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
Maria Popova • James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
you are driven into failure—or worse, into madness by the oblivion of directionlessness.