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“The world is a book,” goes a saying attributed to Saint Augustine, “and those who do not travel read only one page.”
The pilgrims will tell of Palestine, when they get home, not as it appeared to them, but as it appeared in [the guidebooks]—with the tints varied to suit each pilgrim’s creed.”
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgement. The traveler was a student of what he sought. —PAUL FUSSELL, ABROAD
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote: “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
As the Koran says, “Did you think you should enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?”
“One of the essential skills for a traveler,” noted journalist John Flinn, “is the ability to make a rather extravagant fool of oneself.”
Slow down and remember this as you begin your travels: Being busy can be a form of laziness. Lazy thinking, and indiscriminate action. Being selective—in other words, doing less in a smart way—is usually the more productive and fun path.
“We see as we are,” said the Buddha,
The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you.
“Good people keep walking whatever happens,” taught the Buddha. “They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad.”
we have politicized open-mindedness to the point that it isn’t so open-minded anymore.
mourning the perceived purity of yesterday will only cause us to miss the true dynamic of today.
“Ah, it appears that you are a man after all,” the clever abbot said, “and that you must once again work in order to live.”
For none more than you is immortality. —WALT WHITMAN, “A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH”
