We are all sailing away to the sea
We leave because we’re looking. For something. For someone. We leave because we long for something else, something more. We leave to look for some piece of us that’s missing.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
"A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.”
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
Being a teenager is seven years of navigating through fog. We were all once at the helm of our ships, feeling unsure and invincible, searching for ourselves.