I woke early & refreshed this morning and — despite the pain that still pulsed through my left shin and both hips — felt more than ready to head back out onto The Path. After sharing a delicious breakfast with Vanda & Laurent, their oldest son Fabio (pictured in the first comment box below) graciously […]
“At its deepest level, Enlightenment is man’s release from all self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is one’s inability to make use of understanding without direction from another, and self-incurred is this tutelage when its origin lies not in a lack of reason but rather in a lack of the courage needed to use it without another’s guidance […]
“Helping, fixing, and serving are fundamentally different ways of seeing life. When you seek to help you see life as weak, and when you try to fix you see life as broken. In stark contrast, when you choose to serve you see life as whole. From the perspective of help and repair we are all […]
I walk on slowly yet steadily, out of Moudon and through its sister township of Bressonnaz-Dessus and into the woods beyond. My hip-flexor starts to freeze up once again at this point, and I begin to grab my left pants-leg and pull upward with every other step to help my left leg onward ( :O […]
Crossing the Jura Mountains a few days prior remains to this day the physically most challenging walking day of my entire life, and yet gazing upon the Alps on this day made me quite thankful that it was only the Juras I had been asked to traverse … 🙂 “Sometimes I go about in pity […]
The abject incompetence of the Swiss folks who were responsible for marking my particular Camino route had already become a source of open amusement for me by this point. I mean, how a people could be so meticulous with their enforcement of social policies and their international neutrality and their watch-making, and yet simultaneously be […]
As if the steep staircase I encountered in the woods past the town of Ecorcheboeuf wasn’t challenging enough (neither shin-splints nor hip-flexor strains care much for walking downhill), I came across this monstrous obstacle blocking my way shortly thereafter, and earnestly wondered how I was going to be able to flow on any further (I […]
After gingerly yet successfully clambering over the fallen tree, I found that hip-flexor strains dislike climbing woodland staircases almost as much as they despise descending them … Up & up & up I limped — stair by stair by stair — until I finally climbed all the way out of my marshy valley and came […]
And I saunter onward through the Walk’s next crisp early morn … 🙂 “Are you going to sit half-alive at home? Are you going to mildly remain in your coffin of bland mediocrity? Or are you going to break out of that cage and take a braver journey — a journey of rediscovering Self; a […]
“We never need risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. In truth, the labyrinth they have already navigated is fully known, and we only need follow the thread of those heroes’ singular path. And once we do so, where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall […]
I walk up a hill on this sunny morning to yet another closed protestant church, and pause there for a bit to soak in the raw Beauty of all that surrounds me … 🙂 “We cannot see things in their full perspective until we cease to hug them to our own bosom. Only when we […]
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