Day 19a: Even back then, soaking in Now … (05/03/2019)
Still as true today as it was when I first thought it back in 2008 (during my first and only other Camino pilgrimage) …
“Thinking today about how time & space become oddly distorted while walking any pilgrimage; how space often seems to bend and time seems to almost disappear altogether — how sometimes I cover long swaths of trail in a seeming instant, and how other times I trudge along arduously for what seems like hours to then realize I have only covered a handful of kilometers … And yet all the while pilgrimage ever fulfills its far greater Purpose: the cleansing of life and our perception thereof. Indeed, with each passing step I think fewer & fewer of the same dry & banal thoughts that I’ve already pondered a hundred times before. And the further I flow along, the more I become free of such mental meanderings; the more I am alone with (and thus once more become again one with) my True Self. And I marvel at my body that simply walks down the road without worrying where it’s going … and at my mind that chatters its way constantly into the foggy myths of past regrets & future fears … and at my emotions that swing seemingly without fatigue back & forth again & again & again between joy and terror and gratitude and despair … And yet as I simply continue to perseveringly walk — and to resolutely live, and indeed to persistently Love — I am left in the end with only my purest Soul for companionship; the Soul that resides ever within me; the Soul that ever waits patiently (and indeed joyously) for me to simply let it all go — to just BE without selfish doubt in this beautiful life & to simply act selflessly without delay in this & every Love-rich moment.”
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