After all, the only rule of travel is,
don’t come back the way you went. 
Come a new way.

- Anne Carson
From Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; The Anthropology of Water.

Shut your mouth

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. 
Take in what is there and 
give no thought to what might have been there 
or what is somewhere else. 
That can come later, 
if it must come at all. 

- C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life