Vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal - not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

Rolf Potts

Solitude

Clamdigger by Edward Hopper

If we lose our capacity for solitude, our ability to be alone with ourselves, then we lose our very ability to think. We risk getting caught up in the crowd. We risk being swept away by what everybody else does and believes in – no longer able, in the cage of thoughtless conformity, to distinguish ‘right from wrong, beautiful from ugly’. 

Solitude is not only a state of mind essential to the development of an individual’s consciousness – and conscience – but also a practice that prepares one for participation in social and political life. Before we can keep company with others, we must first learn to keep company with ourselves.

Hannah Arendt

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On taking ACTION

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. 

Wishing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The way to get started ...

"The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing"

~Walt Disney~

Accomplish Extraordinary Things

People do not decide to become extraordinary. 

They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. 

Sir Edmund Hillary

No such thing as spare time, 

no such thing as free time, 

no such thing as down time. 

All you got is lifetime. Go!

Henry Rollins

There are rumours ...

Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life


Alain De Botton

Your life changes the moment you make a new, 

congruent and committed decision

Tony Robbins

To act as one thinks ...

To think is easy. To act is difficult.
To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On enjoying the journey

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you are no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.

Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

An endless stream of puzzle pieces

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Robert Pirsig