Great passage. Brought to mind three quotes. The first is about the fluid nature of journeys, as a metaphor for a way of be-ing and living:
"Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. 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 second relates to a subtle point Carse brings up regarding not overcoming distance, but rather discovering it. It reminds me of an interesting point I came across:
Distance is meant to relate, not separate. --Satish Kumar
It is ultimately our uniqueness that allows us to uni-versally relate. And lastly, a quote I actually ran across in a plane:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
And I guess to have new eyes is to continue to awake anew not just to the observed, but also to the observer!
On Jun 29, 2009 iJourney Content Editor wrote :
Great passage. Brought to mind three quotes. The first is about the fluid nature of journeys, as a metaphor for a way of be-ing and living:
The second relates to a subtle point Carse brings up regarding not overcoming distance, but rather discovering it. It reminds me of an interesting point I came across:
It is ultimately our uniqueness that allows us to uni-versally relate. And lastly, a quote I actually ran across in a plane:
And I guess to have new eyes is to continue to awake anew not just to the observed, but also to the observer!