A Quote by Phyllis A. Whitney

A map is not a journey. — © Phyllis A. Whitney
A map is not a journey.
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.
I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.
But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.
Life is a journey I don't have a map for.
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)
You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
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