Joseph Pearce on Ways to Walk through Life

"It has been said, quite correctly, that man is homo viator. We are wayfarers on the journey of life. We are pilgrim adventurers on the quest for heaven. If this is so, if we can see our lives as a journey, we should see the events of our lives as steps along the path along which we walk. How should we approach this path? How should we walk it? Should we hike it energetically and single-mindedly, expediting life as an explorer might expedite an expedition? Or should we ramble in a leisurely fashion, taking our time and stopping along the way to enjoy the scenery?"

In a recent commentary based on the examples of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, reflected on the difference between hiking and ambling through life.

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Aleteia: Joseph Pearce: Should we hike or ramble through life? (24 OCT 23)