Thoughtful Traveling - May 17 - Lama Anagarika Govinda
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2019-05-13

Greetings Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for May 17th.  It’s by Lama Anagarika Govinda, a German, who was born Ernst Lothar Hoffmann, but spent much of his adult life in Tibet and other parts of Asia as a Buddhist scholar, mystic, painter, and poet.  He lived from 1898 to 1985.
“The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.”
So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine.
“Travel is a set of memorable experiences, much more so than it is a bunch of places and things that we physically encounter.  The journeys live on in the mind.  Our memories primarily consist of the feelings we had for certain places we visited, people we met, and obstacles that we had to overcome.  Ernest Hemingway said, ‘People are the limiters of happiness.’  And, it’s the people we meet that often determine how much we like or dislike a place.  But, sometimes we are fortunate, and the destination itself touches our heart. Those are the places we’ll remember forever and long to visit again.”
Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in May.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!  
Dr. Stan McGahey