"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

31 March 2010

Master Navigators of Polynesia


"Wind, waves, clouds, stars, moon, birds,. fish, and the water itself-these are the fundamental elements of the Polynesian world."

"If you can read the ocean, if you can see the island in your mind, you will never get lost."
-Master Navigator Mau Pilang

"Enshrouded by the night, the canoe itself became the needle of a compass that was the sky."
-Wade Davis