… the hermitage is closed, which a nice message for us all, really: It is time to go forth and actively CARE for others! “I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a spirit […]
… a very high highland farm … “Many spiritual teachers have spoken of a first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to Enlightenment.” ~ Bell Hooks
… here, Mom is seen sprinkling an offering of Pilgrim’s Bread, brought all the way from the Sending-off Ceremony we shared earlier that year back on Alexzanna Farms. “Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.” ~ Johannes […]
The Way is allWays marked — albeit sometimes more clearly than others … 😉 “Over every mountain there is a path, though it may not be seen from the valley.” ~ Theodore Roethke
I thought this was amusing at first — informing us that we still had almost the entire Path to go before attaining our goal … And then I realized that many pilgrims walk the Way from locations much farther away than southern France. I met one pilgrim who was walking to Santiago from Ireland and […]
… taking a break … “By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.” ~ Thomas More
… into the fog … “This, then, is our Wilderness: to live facing imminent despair, but not to consent.” ~ Thomas Merton
On many days, the Journey consist of traipsing from yellow arrow to yellow arrow — while dipping in and out of the conscious awareness of the walking. “Detachment is not insensibility. Too many ascetics have failed to become great Saints precisely because their rules and practices merely deadened their humanity, instead of setting it free […]
We have now crested the Pyrenees and are in Spain. This steep (and seemingly ever steeper) path wound down through the woods towards Roncevalles, where we would be spending the night. “Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” ~ Horace
“Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” ~ Richard Evans
… almost there, Mom! “All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line … With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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