Tigerlily is
a hiker who has decided to take on the Appalachian Trail. People hike the
Trail for many different reasons, but some people don’t really
have a specific reason. Tigerlily explains her reason- or lack of a reason- to
hike the AT in her journal. “I still find myself asking WHY do I want to do
this trail, what is the pull and there is a pull. I don’t have the answer which
in my case may be the answer…I find myself feeling lost, searching for something
meaningful. Looking for that purpose in my life and I just don’t feel that I
can find it here. This “pull” she is experiencing, it can
relate back to “Landscapes of the Sacred” and the fourth axiom. The fourth axiom states, “the impulse of sacred place
is both centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal.” Since
centripetal is moving towards a center, and centrifugal and moving away from a
center, this impulse, causes one to be drawn in, and also drawn out. I think of
this also as a way of looking inward but also outward; to learn about oneself
on an introspective level, and also to learn about others, and life around you
in a more outward sense.
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