[00:15.43]We Are on a Journey
[00:17.77]Wherever you are,
[00:19.96]and whoever you maybe,
[00:21.65]there is one thing in which you and I
[00:24.58]are just alike at this moment,
[00:27.02]and in all the moments of our existence.
[00:30.27]We are not at rest; we are on a journey.
[00:34.59]Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady,
[00:40.52]ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
[00:44.21]We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday.
[00:49.40]Even when our position and our character
[00:53.40]seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing.
[00:57.09]For the mere advance of time is a change.
[01:01.65]It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July.
[01:07.31]The season makes the difference.
[01:11.50]The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.
[01:17.94]Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another.
[01:23.69]Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed.
[01:28.82]It sets us forward or backward.
[01:32.07]The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle
[01:36.76]is just as real as the action of the positive pole.
[01:41.70]To decline is to accept the other alternative.
[01:48.20]Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?
[01:52.70]Yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other;
[01:57.57]for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life,
[02:02.45]you have never been still for a single moment;
[02:05.83]the sea is too deep,
[02:07.83]you could not find an anchorage if you would;
[02:11.39]there can be no pause until you come into port.