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“It wasn't actually being on the trail that made me truly free. I don't want anyone to read this and believe that they have to hike the Appalachian Trail in order to find themselves. It also wasn't ending my marriage or leaving my career, though I do believe those things were a necessary part of my journey of change and rediscovery. The true key was the mindset I learned to adopt, one amplified by the trail. It was the ability to appreciate the current moment, the willingness to be in it, and taking it in at the speed the moment required.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“You can’t turn off the rain,” I reminded myself. “But it never lasts forever.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life
“The clouds parted, and the trees were situated in such a way that the beams of light coming through the cracks felt like you could reach out and scoop a piece of the golden light into your hands.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“One thing I have come to know is that a new path is always possible; we just need to choose it for ourselves.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I was blindly heading down one path, unaware, sleepwalking, stepping but not feeling the ground, looking but not really seeing.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I had spent the last several months trying to forge a better relationship with myself, my goals, my expectations, what I valued, and where I spent my time and energy. I hoped to use the trail as a reconditioning tool, to stop looking so far ahead and find true pleasure in the present moment. I had steeped myself in knowledge of the great masters, sayings like “To travel well is better than to arrive,” and, “The journey is the reward." I was shedding my life of destinations with only a bare tolerance for the journeys between them.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“What had I actually left an entire life behind for? I couldn’t put those words together, not here in these first steps on the trail. I’ve come here to figure out what I came here for, I settled on and kept stepping.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“But what happens when we follow that template only to realize everything we were told we should want isn’t actually what we do want?”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
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