And then a few days later I wandered into the oasis-like village of Hontanas, where I was asked by a local hostel-owner to remain for an additional day – greeting previously met pilgrim-friends as they moseyed after me into town, helping local saint Father Fran serve the community’s small indigent population, and even offering a courtyard version of my Re-Discovering Peace presentation for a handful of my fellow pilgrims who were interested in the same …

“The human heart – like all the founding masters of all the world’s religions (and indeed like all secular students who have mastered the various schools of ethics) – says, ‘This way.’ The human ego (alongside the external worlds of politics & law & economics it has created) world says, ‘No, that way.’ Religion itself says, ‘I am the way.’ Of course, it doesn’t take a master or a genius to understand that the former one ever directly clashes with the latter two, and that any & all men who find themselves choosing the ways of ego &/or religion over The Way of the Heart will always find himself so far off the actual Path that being lost indeed becomes his way.” ~ inspired by Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most fluid way back to God is through acts of kindness, and kindness – by its very nature – knows no religion. Indeed, religion is like a narrow track winding its stony, meandering way along a mountain’s slippery side. Kindness is like arriving directly that mountain’s summit.” ~ inspired by Amit Ray

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