Malik Watkins's Bloglines

As I mentioned….Got Tickets!! 🙂 Preparing for destination next!! Typically we don’t have this luxury, the necessities of life make their demands. However, sentient beings can still add this to the mix…

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. you must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” (not just who you think you are, but find out who you are…it is a process and a destination – my words)…

-Margaret Young

Eventually, the blog of a traveler may evolve into the most important trip – the one within. So, for a bit, you will see some transparency….simultaneously showing the geographic/surface destinations and more importantly, between the lines….the journey towards the internal one. This book, recommended by my good friend ‘Erzebet Tamas’, is one guide to help make this happen. In short, these geographic destinations are wonderful, yet they are simply the outward representation of what can help us grow beyond an identity based upon our jobs, salary, wealth, and the superficiality of identity created by the worlds in which we reside. Much of this self-identity that we have is simply a response to our environment or the events of our lives versus what we create.

For me, traveling helps provide the tools to grow and nurture this self-identity: one of the many amazing pieces of art created by the universe – ourselves!! This isn’t just about what we generally perceive as art…I am talking about creating our life as our own artistic master piece….this process….effect and/or affect….’the Artist’s Way’…

Soon come!! ❤