The best way to promote growth and healing is to take a trip, to go in search of adventure. Travel through space, whether by land, sea, air, or mind, is the universal metaphor for change. The hero(ine)’s journey creates new futures. New patterns and possibilities emerge.
Many cherished beliefs come into question. New strengths, insights and talents unfold.
When the journey is over and you return to where you began, you are faced with new beginnings. You are at a turning point, a place where new paths make themselves known.
If the journey is successful, you return a changed person, a hero(ine) in your own eyes.
~ Jeffrey Kottler
In Search of Adventure and Ongoing Discovery
Finding Your Way, When Home is Being Lost in the Wilderness
“I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map…nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am… I have lost myself though I know where I am.
Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or round a bend, I have never seen this place before. Times when some architectural detail on a vista that has escaped me these many years says to me I never did know where I was, even when I was home.”
~ Rebecca Solnit, in A Field Guide to Getting Lost
On the Edge of the Canyon – Flowing Water, Glowing Trees
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
On Rocky Surfaces, Blossoms Reflect their Shadow Beauty
“We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.”
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Silent Voice in the Wilderness — It Speaks
“…there’s a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades away, over and out.” ~ Rob Schultheis