Is the journey more important than the destination?
To have a destination is important. It’s always advisable to know where you’re heading. For instance, in the Road to Saint James, you need to know where you are. It’s through this knowledge that you can organize your trip, but it’s the journey that you really enjoy. Once in Santiago, you’re tired and you have finished your travel. It’s at this precise moment that you realize that the destination is your passion and the path your joy.
Can you explain what does this road to Santijgo mean? I don’t understand clearly.
Alla
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i can never thank you enough, my dearest Paul from Austria…ALways in my prayers…
Love and Graditude
Annie
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para mi destino es cada segundo, cada minuto. por lo tanto destino es el viaje, y el viaje es destino. no encuentro diferencia, otra cosa son los objetivos que determinan el rumbo de tu viaje, que al final se convierte en tu destino. no creo que el destino sea un lugar al que llegar, creo que es un engaño de la mente igual que el espacio-tiempo, lo importante para mi es dirigir los objetivos y continuar el viaje que siempre está emprendido y no preocuparse por el destino puesto que lo estás cumpliendo con cada paso, no hay que preocuparse de lo que hay al final de la escalera sino de como subes cada peldaño. Un buscador no es alguien que encuentra sino alguien que busca.salut
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Existence is made up by being at a very specific place in the universe at a very specific moment.
Life is not only what happen in, with and around us at that moment, but also how we react to the “givens” that we didn’t choose. Adjusting is therefor our responsibility - that is the challenge of living and the crux of enjoying the “game of life”.
Destination, I think, should therefor be an attitude/state of mind which will allow us to enjoy the journey of life rather than a “place” we want to end up at!
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If you do not have a destination there can not be a journey but when there is a destination the journey becomes important, which both are equally important. But when there is a destination, the journey becomes the key point of the whole thing.
The destination is important because it is where one will be able to enjoy life and the accomplishment of reaching where you wanted to go. To be able to get there one has to understand life by its teachings that is brought upon along the way. if someone gets lost its becuase they did not understand what was being taught to them but once they learn they are back on the right path. and once they have learned the meaning of that journey they reach their destination with enjoyment.
They will be ready to go through their next journey reaching their destination with a little bit of more wisdom and taking advantage to what life has to offer.
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A successful runner had run many many miles, before coming to the finish line as a winner. It is important to aim the finish line, but it is more important to run and run, train and make yourself stronger, faster, etc.
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Your answer reminds me of Ithaca, by Cavafy…. the destination is Ithaca, but the journey makes all the difference….it wouldnt have been so precious if we arrived there instantly..
Thank you
Love and Graditude
Annie
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I am a great traveller,as soon that I have the occasion,I part.I am not afraid of going alone,I take care,I feel not lost in new places,and I speak enough languages to find friends almost everywhere.I know that a voyage is important,as well as the target
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The journey I made from Goettweig to Melk last May, was a journey of 50 kilometers on “Paulo Coelho’s Jakobsweg”;) between two beautiful Austrian Monasteries.
It was journey that I had wanted to do for some time, but in order to take the first step, I needed a purpose. Having found such, which was inspired by one of Paulo’s blog participants, I then completed it in 1 day.
It is considered to be a 2 day march, but something kept me walking at 5 kilometers per hour until I reached Melk, exhausted and in pain, just before dusk. I cried as I felt someone else’s relief pass through by bones, and a seldom experienced level of satisfaction.
The moral…? For me it was the act of taking another first step… one of many… but each with its own special message… this time not just to dream… but to do…
Love, & just do it, Paul
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SURE!
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The enjoyment and the love of the world and the things, overflowing(being brimming) when we arrive at St Jacques…
The Christmas holidays approach and my envy(urge) is increasing: this weekend in Heavy (I know that I have to return to it) and the next weekend to St Jacques: I shall have been able to choose to redo St’s road jacques but I believe that the memory(souvenir) has to remain intact, then I chose to go to St Jacques to meet pélerins at their arrival; because it is At this moment which they understand(include) and especially intégrent their crossed(gone through) road I want to listen to their narrative on their route(course): a so rich collection of data I want to be over there, I know that I shall learn a lot; it has been weeks since I think of it and it will be my journey of the end of year, with its own purpose
Move, be for the listening
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la joie et l’amour du monde et des choses, débordant lorsqu’on arrive à St Jacques …
les vacances de noël approchent et mon envie est croissante : ce week-end à Lourdes( je sais que je dois y retourner ) et le week-end prochain à St Jacques : j’aurai pu choisir de refaire le chemin de St jacques mais je crois que le souvenir doit rester intact , alors j’ai choisi d’aller à St Jacques pour rencontrer les pélerins à leur arrivée ; car c’est en cet instant qu’ils comprennent et surtout intégrent leur chemin parcouru
je veux écouter leur récit sur leur parcours : un recueil de données tellement riche
je veux être là-bas , je sais que j’apprendrai beaucoup ; cela fait des semaines que j’y pense et …. ce sera mon voyage de fin d’année , avec son propre but
bouger , être à l’écoute
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détachez vous du but , peu importe si votre but est atteint ou non ( bien sûr c’est mieux s’il est atteint ) , vous pouvez considérer que si vous avez fait un tiers ou la moitié du chemin : c’est bien , car le but du voyage n’est pas le but , c’est le chemin du voyage qui est le but , ce que vous avez parcouru , les efforts que vous y avait mis , l’intensité de votre amour …tout chemin porte en lui un but ( même si vous ne voyez pas tout de suite ) : avancez sans crainte car vous serez récompensé
agir , bouger , faire pour , avoir des objectifs , savoir où l’on va , faire même si on se trompe , faire et recommencer
Remove(Untie) you of the destination, it doesn’t much matter if your destination is reached or not (naturally it is better if it is reached), you can consider that if you made a third or half of the road: it’s good, because the purpose of the journey is not the destination, it is the road of the journey/travel that is the purpose, what you crossed/make , the efforts which had put in you in it, the intensity of your love any road are in him a purpose (even if you do not see everything of ):Advance(Move) without fear because you will be rewarded
Act, move, of make for, of having objectives, of knowing where we go, to make even if we make a mistake, to make and to begin again
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What if you keep finding that once you reach the destination, it has moved somewhere else? You keep on travelling to the new address, only to find it moved farther, or may be to where you had started, for all that matters? Does the joy of journey still remains? Can one still enjoy the journey? Is it that then one needs to see if it is really his destination? or is it the destiny that drives our destination?
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Yesterday I finished “The Zahir” before I fell asleep. Tears were running down my cheeks. And exactly this night I dreamed about my destination. For five months now I’m on a stony path, I haven’t had a day without tears. It’s about love… The destination is the most important - it’s all I want. It’s the biggest aim in life. …the journey that leads to the destination is life. Life depends on how we live this journey. …what, if we can’t reach the destination?
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