One can argue that your books are about the journey within. But is there also a travel book lurking in you somewhere? Any particular place you would like to write about? Any particular travel memory that has stayed with you/made a big impact on you?
I’m a pilgrim writer and that inevitably appears in the way my characters deals with space. I’m in constant movement and very often I find that my characters need to equally find themselves in a journey. I believe that we are constantly experiencing transformation and that’s why we need to let life guide us. That’s what the main character in The Witch of Portobello, Athena, for instance, does: she runs the world in order to discover herself.
The physical journey mimics the psychological one in the sense that it’s only through this experience that she is able to grasp the deeper meaning of her life, the reason for her wanderings.
Some people say the journey to the heart is a sweet misery. It is beautiful yet painful. It’s painful because sometimes you cannot share the beauty with anyone. Perhaps parts of it can be shared. But never all of it. Because a journey to the heart is a journey to one’s own heart — to go within oneself. It’s difficult for other people to go within others’ heart — to walk on the exact paths of other people’s journey. Difficult for others who are outside you to go within you. A journey to the heart is a sweet surrender. Other people just cannot surrender other people’s heart. You surrender yourself to your own heart. Then and only then you can feel that feeling: sweet misery, sweet surrender. You feel you.
It is the fault of my sign,Sagittarius,maybe,but me happy really only when I am travelling.Also I understand the inner quest,the search for our true nature,or destiny.
I too enjoy traveling and find not only thrill but solice in the thought of leaving.
It is when I am leaving that I feel myself but when I arrive it is like I need to find something - even though I am already me. And when I find something to make me stay I dont feel like me anymore.
I dont want to keep to searching I just want to be. :(
Yes I read something last night about the spiritual search -journey ,you can do it from your home its with in you ..I understand this fully but I also think experiences ,beauty and meeting people while traveling is also part of the search ,when we yearn for more its because our soul needs More ,Desires more ,deserves more and lifts our spirits up ..but also I can see that working with the same souls on spiritual matters for humanity is working for the greater good of all -working for the same ends …peace …Honor ..Truth ..Integrity and LOVE ..sign me up …Blessings Tania
Travelling and meeting people, “tasting” everything with our senses. To make the journey of the Soul, too. To collect our Heart’s jewels and enrich and tranform our Aura.
I also remember a famous poem by Constantinos Kavafis[again!!] ‘The Town’. A beautiful poem, saying that the town is inside us and wherever we go she/it follows us.
Love,
Thelma
I love to travel even though it’s only from home to school and vice versa but still you can notice the things that happens around you and the things that changes as days, weeks, and months go by. And sometimes I can also reflect on things even with the hustle and bustle of the streets.
-Angeline
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It enlightens you…