translation

It means that life is not just a static thing or an object (like a tree or a dog or an idea) but that it should be thought of as continually changing. A route (on a map) is something fixed which can be described by the start and end points and the roads followed but a journey is the process of getting from A to B and may follow the specified route or may take a different one. Life should be seen as a journey where the start point is known but the end point and the actual route taken may have infinite possibilities.

thank you for pointing this out. it is a very good quote. writers, poets, and philosophers have tried to understand and interpret life, but we are still in a dazed and confused of what it truly is. that's why i refrain from any definition of life. because once life is defined, we treat it as a fact and concept, which it is not. i like the end of your discussion, "a ceaseless progress toward an unseen goal." i think that says it all.