Everything Is a Journey Now
Voyagers move through the liminal with at least some sense of what it is. They travel with their eyes open to the suffering and tragedy the pandemic has brought. The voyage through the liminal and in so doing grapple with the profound change that must now happen to birth something new, so that we don’t return to an economic system and cultural valu... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
"No. You see, after travelin' for a while, I saved enough to retire to the farm. I tried it, but I'd grown accustomed to the life of a wanderin' minstrel. After three months, I signed up for another tour, and I've been goin' ever since. I'll probably die in an airport somewheres." "That's the saddest thing I ever heard." "W
... See moreGerald Weinberg • The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully (Consulting Secrets Book 1)
The most powerful journey reflects “maturation” of growing concern for others.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck • THE MOON IS DOWN, TO A GOD UNKNOWN, CANNERY ROW, THE RED PONY, TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, THE PEARL
Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
This is what Camus meant when he said that "what gives value to travel is fear" -- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish... See more