Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

I want to be the kind of writer who is awake to the realities of heaven, but engaged in the realities of this world.

This is the irony with needs. We all have them, but we generally don’t discover them until we go without for a while. We discover what we need when we live without things. This is part of the value of traveling and packing light as we travel. Sometimes it’s good for us to need things and not have them.

Maybe if we mastered the art of expecting the unusual, we would start experiencing the unusual.

You don’t have to go. You can stay home. It’s up to you. But if you let fear stop you from doing what you really want to do, you’ll regret that forever.

When it comes to rules, I hope we never stop asking ourselves what the intent is behind the rules we’re following, and if they’re accomplishing the objective. I hope we don’t become blind followers. Blindly following rules won’t get us the reward we think it will.

You have to leave home to go on a journey, but you can’t leave home without having a home.

it is about uncovering the driving forces behind my decisions.

we love to celebrate stories of people who take a leap, who abandon everything to sacrifice for others. Maybe this is what makes a story worth living, worth repeating. Maybe it’s what makes a chance worth taking, even when it’s dangerous—the opportunity to live a life that extends beyond us, that saves the lives of others. Sometimes our legacies fo

The lighter I pack, the more I