Buon Viaggio

"For a voyage to the destination,

whatever 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 distances

I have travelled within myself-without friend or ship-

but of the long way I have yet to go before

I come home within myself

and within the journey."

-Laurens van der Post