What takes away the joy of a journey?
What diminishes the pleasure of a new learning experience?
What dampens curiosity when faced with a never-before challenge?
What fades wonder in the midst of discovery?
Expectations.
Our inability to surrender to the journey alone.
Krishnamurti’s words express this beautifully:
“If we could take a journey, make a pilgrimage together, without any intent or purpose, without seeking anything, perhaps on returning we might find that our hearts had unknowingly been changed… if we can take the journey together without any purpose and simply observe as we go along the extraordinary width and depth and beauty of life… if we are able to understand ourselves, we shall be at peace, and then we shall know how to live rightly.”