Unable to Prepare for the Journey?

Posted by on November 15, 2009

TRUTH
It’s an Adven­ture, Not an Axiom.
A Story Unfold­ing, Not a Tale Already Told.
The Jour­ney Counts, Not the Destination.

Right?

I came across this col­lec­tion of (emer­gent) catch­phrases dur­ing a forum dis­cus­sion which hap­pened this past week­end. There is a visual which goes along with it, which you can find here. The visual itself is, I think, self-evidently bril­liant (I highly rec­om­mend you look at the visual). The atti­tude towards truth that these catch-phrases con­vey is one I can never seem to take seri­ously. If I have a desire, or a thirst, to know the truth, then it seems to me obvi­ous that my ulti­mate end is the des­ti­na­tion. For how can we truly be pre­pared for the jour­ney when we neglect the fact of where we’re going, or hope to be going ? It’s a casual atti­tude, fatally flawed.

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Category: Philosophy, Theology

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    1. God’s Will and Journies | Contemplations Along The Way says:
      November 19, 2010 at 12:40 pm

      […] jour­ney that’s impor­tant, not the des­ti­na­tion’, then I would think that we would be unable to pre­pare for the jour­ney. That is simply […]