“A man is good when he finds Joy in serving others, evil when he takes joy in harming them. He is virtuous when he finds peace in a selfless life; sinful when he takes pleasure in a self-centered one. Hence, the things we choose to Love tell us who we are choosing to Be.” ~ […]
… entering Roncevalles … “Treat each moment preciously … be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.” ~ Menachem Schneerson
The largest sleeping room along the entire Camino, this hall used to be an infirmary for pilgrims, and now sleeps 160 people, and on this evening it was completely full. How amazing it was to experience firsthand the sizable portion of the world’s inhabitants (if this room is a accurate sample) that are loud snorers […]
Remember to take off those shoes … 😉 The young man to the left of Mom is David, a thespian from Slovakia who we ended up seeing many times over the next few weeks. “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” ~ unknown
We celebrated a real Pilgrim’s Mass that evening, where pilgrims from all over the world and from all faiths were blessed in a beautiful, gentle, multi-lingual ceremony in the town’s cathedral. This picture shows a “shrine” to Saint James located there. “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” ~ Anatole […]
Today was my first experience with “the solitude phenomenon”; where I could set out with dozens of other pilgrims (in this case, 160+) from the same location at roughly the same time, and yet within an hour be completely alone on the Path. An experience that was bizarre (and really cool), to say the least […]
“There is no emotion without the potency to tempt you towards the ruin of selfishness; And yet it is only emotions steeped in Kindness that can carry us to Peace.” ~ from my Camino journal
“Love is not some great internal mystery … Love is the stuff of which the world is made … In this moment, I reach out my hand … In this moment, I give the world to you.” ~ from my Camino journal
“Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path … This is what I must do … This is who I am.” ~ James Hillman
“Beauty awakens the Soul to act.” ~ Dante Alighieri
… Mom cooling her feet with two fellow pilgrims. “Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought, in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new.” ~ Thomas Merton
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