“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.” WayMindRealChoicesJourneyPursuitTalesWanderBoredomParadoxDestinationWillingnessEndeavorCasualPilgrimage Book:Spillville: A Collaboration Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.” PeopleRealPastFutureDeedsBonesGravesMeatUtopia Author:Patricia Hampl
“The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.” RealSelfUseConsciousnessSubjectsToolsAutobiography Author:Patricia Hampl
“Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence - intuition - rather than thought lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce.” ThinkingMindHeartKindRealDoneMysterySpecialReadyHighestLaysIntuitionFeminineVocationPonderingChilly Book:Virgin Time Source: Virgin Time
