If you travel towards a destination, it’s important to observe the path. The path teaches you the best way to reach your destination, and it enriches you while you travel it. It’s the same with a goal in life. That too, can get better or worse depending on how you choose to travel the path.
Paulo Coelho in The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
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This wisdom is simple but hard for most to follow. Some of us don’t put much care on the path we are traversing. Consequently, we always go on the wrong path.
But even the wrong path is sending us messages! It’ll teach you that you’re not on the best way towards your destination. But it takes guts to listen to that message
what if observing the path already leads the path to change for better? Or do we only perceive it changes, but in reality we change our perception of the path? All in all focusing on the path creates possibilities for true happiness, doesn’t it?
Wow, you really made me think there, Michael. I think you’re on to something here; our observations of reality influence reality at the same time. So in a way, observing the path is already helping you reach your destination.
But the path and the destination are not the same, nor are they similar. Since you, the traveller, arrives at the destination by travelling the path. Without the destination, the path would be pointless, and without a path, a destination would be a Fata Morgana.
So it’s in the symbiosis of the traveller, the path and the destination that progress can be found.