The journey to where? and for what? To find God, but also to find ourselves, it seems.Jean Wahl, a French philosopher, said this about the itinerant life, that is, a life seeking transcendence:
"'Man is always beyond himself.' This is not the designation of an ecstasy in which one's identity would be lost. 'An experience that disturbs or exalts profoundly,' Wahl was to write in the last lines of his last book, referring to that beyond by height and depth. But he goes on: 'an experience that, once the distance toward it has been crossed, gives itself, and gives ourselves, to ourselves.'" Levinas, Outside the Subject, p. 76.
I think of confession, for in that movement of going beyond pat existence through disclosure of the truth about ourselves, we discover our real self, and can start to travel toward it . . . tents in tow!
Listen to "Travelin Man" 50 years old!
Vaughn Williams "Vagabond"
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