Time, ferry me down the river
Friends carry me safely over
Life, tend me on my journey
Love call me home.
~ song lyrics by Peggy Seeger
As they talked together of The Way, the obstacles, the people, the signs ... you felt the great importance of the physicality of the quest. All of them stressed the power of silence: the need to be alone and find oneself in the silence. Moving alone, with silence as the single companion, seems a most profound means to register the natural balance of the world without, and world within.