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Sojourn
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
by David Whyte
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There is joy in the journey precisely when we don’t try to make a home out of our car, so to speak. There is love on the road when we stop loving the road. There are myriad gifts along the way when we remember it’s a way. There is delight in the sojourn when we know where home is.
from On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
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
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