Somewhere between 'gently down the stream' and 'Invictus.' Perhaps both, simultaneously.
The trick is to find those endogenously arising elements of the long journey that keep it from becoming an extinguishment. At minimum, a concentrated effort to do so every spring. Hence, perhaps the global, common notion of the holy month of fasting and abstention in early spring.
One paradigm for the journey: Worricker, ep. 3. (From the days when I watched those sorts of things.)