The outer journey has many steps. The inner journey has none.
Pilgrim’s progress
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The outer journey has many steps. The inner journey has none.
The first two stages of life, that of student and householder, are for doing. The second two stages of life, that of hermit and renunciant, are for undoing. Adapted for the Western mind, per T.S. Eliot, we advance for a while and then we retreat, arriving where we started from and knowing the place for the first time.