The Story of Ithaka House

After coming up to the Catskills my entire life and traveling all over the world, I had found a place that will always be called my home.  This house is my Ithaka, perhaps it will be yours.  Read the poem, it might be your destiny also.

J. Pfenning-Keeper of Ithaka House

• Pray that your journey be long
• full of many summer mornings
• when with much pleasure and much joy
• you anchor in harbors never seen before;
• Browse through Phoenician markets,
• to purchase exquisite treasures---
• mother-of-pearl and coral, ebony and amber
• and sensual perfumes of all kinds---
• as much as you desire
• Visit many Egyptian cities, content
• to sit at the feet of the sages, eager
• and open to receive learning.
• Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
• Your arrival there is your destiny.
• But do not hurry the journey at all; be patient
• Better tat it lasts for many years---
• longer than you can even imagine.
• So that finally, when you reach this
• sacred isle, you will be a wise person,
• abundantly fulfilled by all you have gained along the way;
• no longer expectin Ithaka to make you wealthy,
• no longer needing Ithaka to make you rich.
• Ithaka offered you the profound journey,
• the chance to discover the person you have always been.
• Without Ithaka as your inspiration, you
• never would have set out in search of Wholeness.
• And should you find her poor, Ithaka did not deceive you.
• Authentic as you have become, full of wisdom,
• beauty and grace, enriched and enlightened by all you have experienced
• You will finally understand what all of life's Ithakas truly mean.

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