A path is only a path

You must always keep in mind that a path is only a path.

Each path is only one of a million paths. 

If you feel that you must now follow it, 

you need not stay with it under any circumstances. 

Any path is only a path. 

There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping a path 

if that is what your heart tells you to do. 

But your decision to keep on a path or to leave it 

must be free of fear and ambition. 

I caution you: look at every path closely and deliberately. 

Try it as many times as you think necessary. 

Then ask yourself and yourself alone this one question. 

Does this path have a heart? 

A path is only a path,

 and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it 
if that is what your heart tells you. 

Look at every path closely and deliberately. 

Try it as many times as you think necessary.

 Then ask yourself alone, one question. 

Does this path have a heart? 

If it does, the path is good;

 if it doesn’t it is of no use.”

~ Carlos Castaneda