Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea that exploration is driven by hope and instinct, revealing the deep connections we can find in the world.
Colin Thubron's quote underscores the notion that journeys are often initiated by an inner sense of hope and a natural instinct for discovery. As we trace our fingers along maps and envision our travels, we are not only imagining physical routes but also tapping into the profound connections and emotions that certain places evoke, highlighting the significance of exploration in understanding both the world and ourselves.
In practice
In a travel blog discussing the motivation behind adventure trips.
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
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