quote for today

"There is a generally accepted metaphor that compares life to a road. To compare life to a road can indeed be fruitful in many ways, but we must consider how life is unlike a road. In a physical sense a road is an external actuality, no matter whether anyone is walking on it or not, no matter how the individual travels on it--the road is the road. But in the spiritual sense, the road comes into existence only when we walk on it. That is, the road is how it is walked." --Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations