The Journey Or The Destination?

Let life be the destination and the journey.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Life is a journey, not a destination” 

I quake in my boots to dissent with Ralph and yet this quote, as many others, I best appreciate and savour when pulled apart and reassembled.

Thinking of life, or anything that we are creating, as a destination may distract us from experiencing the sweetness of the end result until we have created it. 

Yet as a creator I consciously conjure up the end result, I imagine it, dive into it and pull it's deliciousness into every single moment of the journey. 

Without an end result I do not journey, I meander. 

The gift of imagination imbues me with the power to quantum jump into the end result, inhale it and bring it back to the present. 

I can imagine what it would be like to be in that rocking chair at the end of life tasting, appreciating and cherishing the fullness of the journey. 

I can imagine what it would be like to do work that I love, being an entrepreneur serving the world and humanity, to be in a loving intimate relationship, to enjoy my happy healthy family. 

I imagine to create. 

I imagine so I can savour the sweetness of the destination every step along the way.

I say let’s have it all. 

Let life be the destination and the journey. 

I wouldn't normally quote Abraham Hicks here on LinkedIn 😳 and yet this quote dovetails quite beautifully with Ralph's.

"The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am and eagerness for more."

It exquisitely captures the mind boggling paradox, discrepancy and contradiction of enjoying the journey and the destination at the same time.

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