I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
Interpretation
Traveling light symbolizes a desire to live simply and shed unnecessary burdens in life.
The quote by Madeleine L'Engle reflects the idea of navigating life's journey with minimalism in mind. It suggests that as we go through life, we often accumulate emotional and material burdens that hinder our progress and happiness. By choosing to 'travel light,' we can foster a more fulfilling and meaningful existence, prioritizing what truly matters over the distractions and excess that weigh us down.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and simplifying life.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
I Fall upon the thorns of life.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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