I agree with what I've highlighted in red, however, this simply isn't absolutely possible. The ultimate destination cannot be known because ultimately it's abstract, i.e. it's outside the boundaries of our current perception/cognition. Knowing our ultimate destination would be akin to knowing what happens after we die, or knowing what lies outside the boundaries of what we call "reality". It simply can't be known until we get there, i.e. experience it.Ranvier wrote: This is a nice cliche that can be interpreted as "there are many ways to accomplish the same destination but some ways are better than others". Instead, if interpreted as Atreyu suggests, this mantra may lead to the path of Hedonism that may offer the superficial pleasure of the body but maybe meaningless and woven with despair of the consciousness. One must "know" the "destination" first, to make the most out of the "journey".
I'll use this analogy: The car journey has ended in a destination but would it be possible to complete that journey without the steering wheel? What we do may seem insignificant in the "grand scheme" of things but it's Paramount to who one will "become" in the future, as well as the future of others. Let me place it in the perspective of the "time travel", if it were possible, where any or even a most insignificant change to the "past" would profoundly alter the future history in the "compounding" cause and effect. Therefore, everything we do is significant, not only for the personal reasons.
However, we can have a better or worse idea about where we are going, and, naturally, the more one knows about it, the more effective one will be in steering towards it...