Gina Greenlee

“What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?”

“When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.”

“Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.”

“Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.”

“Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life’s roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers.”

“Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.”

“Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?”

“To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.”

“Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.”

“If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.”

“It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.”

“I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?”

“Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.”

“Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.”

“To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.”

“Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering.”

“Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.”

“The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.”

“Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel.”

“Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.”