Pause in the Middle of the Road

written by Nathan

 While I have written about travel types lately, as we have found them - often at the end of roads - finding the middle of our road is serving a purpose: The purpose of pause, of renewing, and of reflection.

Sometimes, our path finds its way through the middle, or, finds the rest in the middle. Or, our journey takes us from getting somewhere to being somewhere. This is a journey that feels human.

“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and s/he who can draw it away from before his/her eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.”
-Rabbi Nachmann of Bratzlav 

What is life without any roadside fences? Where are our commons today? Where are our shepherds?

“…days and months are the travelers of eternity. So are the years that pass by… I reached the summit, completely out of breath and nearly frozen to death. Presently the sun went down and the moon rose glistening in the sky.”-
-Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North 

Thanks Guruji! You told us that we should come back. We should visit the Himalayas. You will point us the way. Thanks to all the world travelers, you make the world more humane through your willingness to travel to distant and unknown lands. See you in the middle of the road.