It has been a very long time since my last post on my Asia "Journal," and I feel as though it is just about time that I get back to it! So here is the next installment!
Before I can really go too far though, I need to at least link you to the blog post that this entry refers to right at the start. So please check out this post on the SSU Travel Blog.
Also, check out the first two posts:
Also, check out the first two posts:
Now please sit back, relax and enjoy the read!
As I stated in my first travel blog
post on the SSU website, this trip was a really big and self-changing
pilgrimage. Now that I am home, I am struggling to try to grasp the full extent
of what has changed within me. I kind of wonder if it is something I will ever
really figure out. I find it doubtful. I am quite sure that a lot of the
changes are miniscule enough that I will not be able to notice them, but
together, they make me a different person. I have no doubt that what I talked
about in my travel blog is only a very small portion of the inner change I have
experienced. I am excited to see what other changes have occurred!
While reading a
book recommended by one of my professors, “Pilgrimage: A Spiritual and Cultural
Journey,” I came across this quotation on page 134: “Pilgrims journey together:
they share each others' joy and feel each others' pain. We try to ensure that
everyone’s story is heard and that help is offered for the continuing journey
of life.” This is something that I think our group accomplished somewhat
unknowingly. Each of us was too involved in our own worlds to look up and
realize that just by hugging someone around us, or giving a smile, or sitting
and listening to someone’s complaints we were really helping each other and
coming closer together.
I would like to again leave this section of my journal with my favourite quote from T.S. Eliot (I just think it fits everything):
“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.”
Peace & Love,
K.
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