Dear Fellow Traveler,
Are you more focused on the destination or the direction? Would your friends and family describe you as someone who has a rule of life?
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed,
The essential thing 'in heaven and earth' is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
What does “a long obedience in the same direction” actually mean?
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