“Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain,” wrote Dhammapada scholar Eknath Easwaran, “are storms in a tiny, private, shell-bound realm—which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.” Vagabonding is not Nirvana, of course, but the egg analogy can still apply. In leaving behind the routines and assumptions of home—in taking that resolute first step into the world—you’ll find yourself entering a much larger and less constrictive paradigm.
