The Vagabond's Way Quotes

“Happiness, he realized, is not a product to be acquired and fine-tuned; it is a by-product of a life that is being lived in a fully engaged way.”
― Rolf Potts, The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel

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― Rolf Potts, The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel

“When we pack too well, we are telling the world that it isn’t good enough on its own, that it makes us uncomfortable and scared. We don’t know if we can depend on anything or anyone, and we’ve decided it’s better not to take the chance. —Stefany Anne Goldberg, “You Can Take It with You” (2012)”
― Rolf Potts, The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel

“One of the more peculiar sins in medieval Christendom was curiositas, which St. Augustine defined as “the lust for experience and for knowledge.” As the rite of pilgrimage to places like Rome and Jerusalem became popular during the Middle Ages, church leaders fretted that curiositas might distract pilgrims from the task of religious piety. In the minds of many parish priests, a key danger of pilgrimage was that travel could be mind-expanding and pleasurable, and hence at odds with the prim prescriptions and hierarchies that underpinned their authority.”
― Rolf Potts, The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel