![]() Alas, as we get up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. “ For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. Quoting more from his book, along with the above well known lines, ![]() It was a 12-day, 200-kilometre long solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France. This is quoted from his book, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", which is based on a journey he went on, in 1878. Nowadays, the first step would typically be planning where to go, followed by initiating the booking process, unless you're a hardcore wanderer at heart. Whatever the original context might have been, these wise words hold true in the context of travelling.Įvery journey, whether long or short, does begin with a single step, which is the first step that you take. Lao Tzu might have also meant to say that every great thing has a small beginning. Įven though scholars and historians still debate the text's true authorship and date of its composition, there is truth in the ancient wisdom. He is known as the reputed author of the "Tao Te Ching", which is also referred to as"Laozi". ![]() Lao Tzu, also known as Laozi or Lao-Tze, literally meaning "Old Master", was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. ![]()
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