… doing a little journaling (while soaking some tired feet) after having washed our clothes and hung them to dry. “If life’s journey be endless, where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are already within a palace which has no end … By exploring it and extending our relationship with it, […]
“Communicating with the Divine” … Yesterday, while we were eating lunch, a man who appeared to be homeless approached us and asked for money. I gave him a few Euros and we chatted a bit before he ambled away. He didn’t go too far, though, and I noticed that he had the air of a […]
… another harmonious section of the Path. (I am the 5th pilgrim from the top) “I learned that sometimes a journey can take you to a place that is not on any map.” ~ unknown
Right on, Mom! “Letting go is required to truly Love another, and gratitude for life ‘AS IS’ is required to truly let go.” ~ from my Camino journal
This particular pilgrim was especially inspiring. He spoke only Spanish, but we communicated enough to know that even though he had suffered a stroke (he walked with a severe limp and couldn’t really use his left arm), he had already walked all the way to Santiago, and was now walking all the way back home! […]
… a typical Camino ritual — the coffee break — this time with Mom and our friends Minsu (from South Korea) and Klaus (from Germany). “We have stories to tell, stories that provide wisdom about the journey of life. What more have we to give one another than our ‘truth’ about our human adventure as […]
… me during that same coffee break … “Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up … The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.” ~ William Butler Yeats
I have been desiring clothes like these for the longest time. Does anyone know where I can find some? .. 😉 “True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” ~ Edward Lindley Wood
The town of Santo Domingo, near the hostel where we will spend this night. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many […]
… heading back onto the Trail in the early morning … “Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that “the good life” is about avoiding pain and thereby “being happy”, and yet the Camino teaches us that true Joy comes not from avoiding our pain, but from transcending it (via acts of […]
“Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that abundance is everywhere and that all of us deserve to be “wealthy”, and yet the Camino teaches that true Wealth is appreciating the things we already have, by using them to further the Joy of others.” ~ from my Camino journal
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