Monday, April 6, 2009

A voyage inside oneself



For a voyage to a destination, wherever it may be,

is also a voyage inside oneself;

even as a cyclone carries along with it the center

in which it must ultimately come to rest.

At these moments I think not only of the places

I have been but also of the distances I have

traveled within myself without a friend or a ship;

and of the long way yet to go before I come

home within myself and within the journey.

And always when the curtains are lifted,

the night is without, peering in steadily

and constantly, with the light of the stars

far beyond.


--- Laurens van der Post


Thanks, Jerry, for sending me this!

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