Day 096d: Another to & through … (July 19, 2019)
While I did briefly stop by the Albergue Ave Fenix this morning*, it didn’t take long for me to reach the tidy city of Villafranca, and it didn’t take long for me to cruise straight through the same …
*I did so to thank owner Jose (who was still sleeping at the time) for his famed kindness & pilgrim hospitality (many had spoken kindly of him and his establishment on previous days) and to subtly witness to my Walk the the dozen or so pilgrims who were having breakfast there when I arrived (possibly most potently when I smiled gently while declining the hospitaleros’ gracious offer of coffee and bread).
“Our rulers and supposed leaders try to make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for their own selfish purposes. And yet if a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the simple ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, then the burden of those attempted social constraints easily falls from one’s shoulders, and life becomes fluid despite them … And the more one practices this ‘intentional ease’, the more one’s faith in the same will be strengthened, and the more you will find that there is no longer the need to have any sense of control at all; that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them both to your great delight and – ultimately – your enormous benefit.” ~ via Mihaly Csikszentmihaly & Emmanuel Tenney
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