“Walking implies creating. It is not about advancing along a marked path, nor discovering a route already laid out by others. The realization of the highest truth is not inherited, nor is it achieved by reproducing the itineraries of others. Each person is called to chart their own course, with uncertainty as their constant companion and fidelity to themselves as their only guide.
There are no maps or signs. No footprint guarantees the direction. Each step inaugurates a terrain that does not yet exist. In this movement without guarantees lies the possibility of uniting the desire for meaning with a horizon that has not yet been revealed. Immediate certainty or total clarity cannot be expected. Those who commit themselves to the search for truth do not take refuge in the known. Rather, they expose themselves to the open space where reality has not yet been constituted.
Like seagulls crossing the sky without leaving a trace, those who advance toward the essential leave no paths that can be repeated. Their passage is not imprinted in the air, but it transforms the height to which it has been possible to rise. It is not a matter of leaving a mark for others, but of inhabiting a unique form of presence. What is valuable is not what is left behind, but the verticality that has been conquered.
Not seeing a path does not mean being lost. In many cases, it is a sign of having reached the threshold where freedom begins. Where there are no previous marks, the most radical task emerges: walking, creating, sustaining movement without abandoning the internal orientation that defines the direction. This task is neither easy nor comfortable. But it is the only one that responds to the need to live without betraying oneself. Every step, however small, is a silent affirmation of the right to exist from oneself and not from an imposed model. It is not a matter of imitating, but of assuming the responsibility of embodying a unique form of reality.
The path is not found, it is constituted in the very act of walking. And in that silent construction, those who dare to move forward without certainties actively participate in the establishment of a meaning that is not inherited, but founded.
“Wayfarer, your footprints
are the path, and nothing else;
wayfarer, there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
By walking, the path is made,
and looking back
you see the path that
you will never tread again.
Walker, there is no path,
only trails in the sea.“
Antonio Machado ”Proverbs and Songs – XXIX”
Prabhuji
