Paulo Coelho
In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.
(The Pilgrimage)
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Yes this is true-particularily when parts of the journey are very tough for a protracted period of time.
We get to meet unforgettable and wonderful people on the journey too.
Breda
I love your books!
I think this are also an Chinese saying.I love traveling ,and I always remember not to hurry,and to take time to admire the wonderful environs.Was nice when I was roaming in mountains and felt afraid, nobody on the road.I noticed a dog who was following me from a distance, when I stopped, the dog was resting,but as if he didnt ever followed me…If start walking,he start too.I felt better,and fear passed,more,I was amused by the dog.He was keeping a distance,and he come with me that way more than 13 km.I arrived to an inn,and I bought some food to give for the dog ,thought he deserved it.
I am having difficulty appreciating a journey that has been painful….very painful…..Viewing what’s in the distance has been the hope that sustains me because my present reality is overwhelmingly dismal.
L’essentiel n’etant pas la destination mais le chemin a parcourir pour y arriver n’oublions donc pas que la seule et vraie destination est la MORT.
Vivons donc pleinement ce chemin car nul ne peut pretendre pouvoir prevoir les asperites de son parcours.
i believe more in journey then the final resultes!!! i find the path is with so but so but so much fun-scarey moments, love- seduction- dissapointment- and ssso many other caractyers! that sometimes i think the arrival is maybe dissapointing,,, so i rather be on the jurney!!! few thigs once i have achieved— i know i still have long way to go,,, and i think its a never ending journey and i just love it this way!
That´s the reason why I moved to a small town.
‘In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.’
(The Pilgrimage)
Therefore, obsession to an extreme is not a good thing. A little madness is great! To be alive.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“In our obsessive wish to arrive,we often forget the most important thing,which is the journey”.(The Pilgrimage)To avoide being sadist or masochist,on “the way through”,the timing between departure and arrival needed.
Indeed, sometime we are so worried about reaching certain goals in our life that we forget that our life is the time we live between our birth and our goal, or the next goal we might think of after that.
We live in between.
So the journey we do not care about it’s our only life, and we might also arrive at the top of the mountain, grabbing our prize, and then realize that our journey has been meaningless and empty.
I know a few people that work as hard as they can, and also take care of the family, only because they look forward to the time when they will be able to retire from work and kids will be grown up enough to walk on their own.
But in the meanwhile? Sometime they will retire, their sons and daughters will go their own way, and they find themself too old, tired and maybe even sick to pursue their idea of the “perfect life”.
Let’s live our life to the fullest, even if it’s not perfect. And let’s try to make it fit us, as much as we can. If we postpone our dreams to the time when we reach our goals (or we retire), we will have been wasting most of our life.
There is no need to be loaded with money to enjoy life. You like travelling? Just get a train, or a low-cost flight, and explore a different town in a different country (or even in your own province).
You like painting, or singing, or dancing, or gardening, or writing? Try do it while you still have your inspiration.
Maybe you will not be able to do it all the time or every day… but never give up living your life to the fullest, or enjoying the journey.
Love,
Rossana Curri
So true!! and so tragic!!
but is it not a dance like the tango (or..?!)
a rather badly danced tango…
i.e.
sometimes others on our paths are urging us along…
when we want to walk and take our time …
and v.v.
Yes this is true-particularily when parts of the journey are very tough for a protracted period of time.
We get to meet unforgettable and wonderful people on the journey too.
Breda
In the “Manual For Climbing Mountains” (by Paulo Coelho) it is written that we have to taste all joys from the nature while we are climbing to the peak of our mountain.
Link: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/manual-for-climbing-mountains/
To live with joy and enthusiam every minute with all our senses: The silence, the games of the LIGHT and SHADOW, of the Black and White, the meeting of other Souls, but with constant communication with our inner self and God.
LOVE,
Thelma