The image below captures how many folks think life is like for the cows that produce the milk & cheese they regularly consume. Of course, nothing could be further from the Truth for 99% of the world’s dairy slaves; with lives soaked in abuse and filth and disease … 🙁 … And yet quite a […]
It stuns me to this very day how well I was able to walk on this day — especially after the immense pain I had been in for so many days previous (as well as how difficult my previous night in Geneva had been), and I reached the day’s summit overlooking the quaint town of […]
Well, despite the afternoon’s wonderful walking, my hips did indeed painfully freeze up again during the day’s final descent into Col de Mt. Sion, and yet their doing so forced me to slow way down and thereby allowed me to be overtaken by day-hikers Peter & Laurianne – a lovely couple who asked where I […]
By far the most important Thank You I emitted whenever offered a hotel bed for a night was the profound Gratitude I felt for being able to allow the givers thereof to remember how it feels to be Human(e) again — how it feels to soak in the peaceful Joy that only comes while choosing […]
“None of our knowledge, our reading, or our connections are ultimately of any use. Two legs, two open eyes with which to see and a single open Heart with which to Care – these alone suffice. Walk alone-yet-interconnected through life, in cities and across mountains and through forests. Remember that you are nobody to the […]
I soon thereafter entered the outskirts of the neighboring village of Charly and passed by one of the loveliest homesteads I have ever seen … 🙂 “The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a significant period of time in which the only focus is intense interconnectedness – the primary matter of the Soul. […]
I head into Charly’s cute little town-chapel to rest and decide to head up into its tiny balcony to write for awhile … No sooner did I get situated to start doing so than two pilgrims entered below me, sang a beautiful song (the harmonies of which were bounced around beautifully by the sanctuary’s age-old […]
“Any true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try so desperately to hold on to. In seeking after what the Soul desires instead, we become pilgrims — knowing the peace that comes only to those who with no home but the path the Soul would have them follow.” ~ inspired by […]
“We can only truly live when we choose to see all of life as a pilgrimage. Indeed, each & every moment we have been given is to be lived fully in almost brazen depth, for the simple reason that each moment contains a Divine perfection within it — a full embodiment of what many call […]
The Peace of equanimity comes to the everyman when Gratitude for life itself remains constant — loss or victory; delay or ease; agitation or comfort, pain or pleasure … Likewise, the Peace of equanimity comes to every pilgrim when Gratitude for the walk of The Way remains just as stable — freezing rain or warm […]
It might be difficult to imagine the pain I was in during this portion of my Walk — pain that made it difficult to lift my legs much higher than a few inches off the ground — pain that transformed even the mildest of puddles (like the one encountered here) into formidable obstacles — and […]
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