Replying to LO28076 --
Daan Joubert writes:
> All I can bring to YOU all is the idea that without purpose, without a
> definite destination the traveller through life may get to know many
> far vistas, visit many places, cross deserts and get to meet many
> people, even 'learn' how to cope with the vicissitudes that come hir
> way, yet never arrives. AnyWhere.
> And it is that arrival - that coming home! - that is like a new birth.
> Even for a lamb.
For a different perspective, see a story I wrote a while back on the list:
http://www.learning-org.com/97.12/0118.html
The quote also reminds me of:
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will
be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-- T. S. Eliot
Happy hunting,
--Don Dwiggins "Experience is what you get when d.l.dwiggins@computer.org you were expecting something else." -- Seen on an office wall
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