“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere―on water and land.”
―Walt Whitman
What road have you had to travel entirely on your own?
Somewhere, a door already stands open, ready for you to walk inside. This door, it turns out, was never locked at all.
What door would you like to walk through?
What would happen if every time you came up against a wall—however insurmountable the object might be—you regarded it with childlike curiosity? What if the first question were not “how can I get past this,” but rather, “what might I learn about this?”
What have you learned about an obstacle that stands in your way?
In spite of the famous line from the movie Jaws, you don’t always need a bigger boat. Sometimes what you already have is quite enough to get you where you need to go, even though you might feel dwarfed by what you see around you.
What about your circumstances seems daunting, and what do you trust to see you through?
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. … We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
―John Steinbeck
What has a trip taught you—whether or not you were looking for the lesson?
