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    • Travel Tuesdays S1E26 -Travel poem by John O’Donohue

      Posted at 9:15 pm by missannsays, on November 5, 2013

      I came across this poem. Thought I would share it. The more I read it, the more I like it.

      Every time you leave home,
      Another road takes you
      Into a world you were never in.
      New strangers on other paths await.
      New places that have never seen you
      Will startle a little at your entry.
      Old places that know you well
      Will pretend nothing
      Changed since your last visit.
      When you travel, you find yourself
      Alone in a different way,
      More attentive now
      To the self you bring along,
      Your more subtle eye watching
      You abroad; and how what meets you
      Touches that part of the heart
      That lies low at home:
      How you unexpectedly attune
      To the timbre in some voice,
      Opening in conversation
      You want to take in
      To where your longing
      Has pressed hard enough
      Inward, on some unsaid dark,
      To create a crystal of insight
      You could not have known
      You needed
      To illuminate
      Your way.
      When you travel,
      A new silence
      Goes with you,
      And if you listen,
      You will hear
      What your heart would
      Love to say.
      A journey can become a sacred thing:
      Make sure, before you go,
      To take the time
      To bless your going forth,
      To free your heart of ballast
      So that the compass of your soul
      Might direct you toward
      The territories of spirit
      Where you will discover
      More of your hidden life,
      And the urgencies
      That deserve to claim you.
      May you travel in an awakened way,
      Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
      That you may not waste the invitations
      Which wait along the way to transform you.
      May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
      And live your time away to its fullest;
      Return home more enriched, and free
      To balance the gift of days which call you.
      ~ John O’Donohue ~

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