Shared Pilgrimage

We can view these unanticipated moments as interruptions or as opportunities to embrace the unexpected. As Shahnaz Habib says, interruptions are also part of the journey.

02.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My bus in Ghana with a broken axle.

Travel, thankfully, never goes smoothly. Flights are delayed, trains run late, buses break down, cows and sheep cross the road. We make wrong turns or someone asks us a question…
#travel

02.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
- Thoreau
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23.01.2024 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.
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23.01.2024 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“The question then is how to get lost. Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery.”
- Rebecca Solnit

05.01.2024 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“….We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
-Pico Iyer

03.01.2024 05:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate….”
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