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 […]
I hobbled up to a beautiful baby dairy cow hanging out right next to the Path (an adolescent calf who had been callously tagged as “#852” by her “owner” but gently renamed “Gertrude” by myself) and paused long enough to recite my standard litany of apologetic encouragement to her — apologizing for the raw arrogance […]
“Slowness means cleaving perfectly to the moment, so closely to the passing of time that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop — like the steady dripping of water on stone. And this stretching of time deepens the space around it as well. In truth this is one of the great secrets of […]
Walking up, Up, UP into and through the village of Contamine-Sarzin went surprisingly well, and yet stumble-sliding down, Down DOWN thereafter — on an extremely difficult section of the Path that seemed to have no end — proved to be far less than fantastic … :O 😉 “It is a simple truth that death can […]
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