Roads
Thurman Quote: “And then, there is the witness of others who have gone along the road we take. True, the road will mean for us something unique but not altogether unique. The generations meet and share, in ways beyond our grasp, the secrets of the new path, the first step, the beginning way. ‘He leads us on by paths we did not know.’”
Citation: “...Paths We Did Not Know,” in The Inward Journey, p. 54.
Description: Here Thurman includes our forebears and ancestors as elements in our journeying or, in this case, our interpretive practice. The ancestral paths of knowing and understanding are sometimes our paths. Other times, we and subsequent generations must chart new paths and ways of knowing, undering, and connecting that extend beyond the vision and actions of those before. Practices of meaning-making by those before us are sometimes practices we are to retrieve and continue journeying with. Other times, they are practices we should leave behind and go forward along ways that would not have been grasped.”
Reflect on: The ways of knowing and meaning your forbears left for you as an inheritance to take forward and/or to leave behind as markers of the past.
