“Let me seek, then, the gift of silence and solitude, where everything I touch is turned into prayer: where the sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, and the others I happen to meet are my prayer, for God is all in all.” ~ inspired […]
We enter Logrono, another large city in which we do not wish to remain long. Here, I’m seen waiting in a town market to buy some fruit for the Journey. “Even when it speaks, humility listens … It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but rather the anxiety to be heard … The humble […]
… departing Logrono … “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” ~ Danny Kaye
Pilgrim-made crosses like these adorned almost every fence we passed along the route. Archetypally, the cross is quite the powerful symbol — representing the union of God, the self & the Soul (along the vertical axis) that a person attains in every moment of raw appreciation (the left) via joyful self-sacrifice (the right). “For the […]
Amidst a sea of pilgrim-made crosses, we found a lone circle — some would say the feminine within the masculine; I would say the Divine that is felt all around us within the Divine that is merely seen as “above” or “below”. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who […]
… our resting place for the night, the hostel in Navarette … “All truly contemplative Souls have this in common: not that they gather in the desert or that they shut themselves up in reclusion, but that wherever the Divine is, there they Are … [and vice versa!]” ~ Thomas Merton [& Scaughdt]
“It’s when we awaken to choice that we sit with the heavens and redesign ourselves.” ~ with Dorothy Gilman
“And this is the mystery of our vocation: not that we cease to be men in order to become angels of gods, but that the Love of my man’s heart can become God’s love for God & men.” ~ Thomas Merton
In honor of my mother, here are a few of the things I have learned from her over the past 40 years: Be kind to others … Live above the conventional … Work with resilience … Remain cheerful … When asked, share your Truths … Remain calm in crisis … Care for the downtrodden … […]
… perfect wine grapes; representing the perfect Love that resides within us all. “Interesting how the Camino stretches time & space, as the monotonous cadence of the Walk plods all thought into silence and one is left to witness the body walking of its own accord — to witness the mind wandering amidst its own […]
Greetings, my Friend! Come on up and enJoy the View … “But, we also have the freedom to choose another life … one that better reflects who we are, why we came into existence, and where we want to end up. That is known as choosing the left hand path; the one wielded by the […]
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