Another thought that just occurred, it’s value potentially anywhere between worthless and priceless (which, in a way, have the same price tag, grin):
A spiritual journey is one where you are looking for answers that only after you find them, you realize you knew all along – but it takes that journey to reveal it. Perhaps the purpose of the journey wasn’t to find the answers, but to discover that you already knew them.
That rings true to my spiritual ears – but it could be nothing more than new-age sounding BS. Or it could be something real.
I mean to find that out.
Update: Someone just suggested to me that this is like Dorothy’s journey (Wizard of Oz), where it was only at the end that she found out that she had the means of returning home with her all along.