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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more..
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As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel--the farther commonly the worse--but how much alive you are." Two"
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One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you." Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek--and in many other places--has it, "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend."
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