Bleeding Edge

Traveling alone is a path to wisdom.

Traveling wisdom can be harnessed when alone, walking about, meditatively or reverently engaging strangers and worshiping their Gods seeking their temples and teasing out the soul.

Walking amidst millions as the loneliest man on earth — and  wishing for even more solitude…

Alone is far different than lonely…

Traveling solo makes for good times and bad times yet it all is easier to bear when you know your journey’s end, you meditate upon it’s meaning and engage life as it comes.

You get to engage people as never before

You move around far more ably — than if you had a traveling companion or a colleague alongside

You feel more.

Good and Bad is magnified and enjoyed.

You become one with the people and the land…

Khalil Gibran put it best when he said: “Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth”

Well said…

Ibn Battuta also chose to always travel alone:  “A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling”

and look how far he got.

Yours,

Pano

PS:

Nothing…

but the Art of traveling

gathering wisdom.

And for companion the words of Whitman:

“To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts, To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,

All parts away for the progress of souls, All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.

Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.

Forever alive, forever forward, Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,

Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!