“Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that “letting go” allows others to love US more purely, and yet the Camino teaches that having compassion for others (while detaching from the results of that Kindness) allows our Love FOR THEM to remain pure — something that is of far greater importance.” ~ […]
We arrive at the hostel in Tosantos … “Every step in the dark turns out in the end to have been on course after all.” ~ John Tarrant
This hostel is one of the many “donativos” one can find along the Camino de Santiago. Donativos are hostels that run purely on donations, where the pilgrims are cared for without any obligation to pay for those services — leaving only what they can or what they feel is just. Many of these hostels have […]
Jose Luis Anton, the “manager” (for lack of any better term, though he is far more than that) of the hostel is the first true, “real live” Saint I have ever met. His entire being smoothly emits a warm Kindness to everyone he meets, as he totters about his day singing Latin arias to God […]
It turns out that the “hospitalero” (a word for the volunteers who reside at the hostels and help care for pilgrims) here had acquired the flu just that day, and that Jose Luis could use some assistance until Detlef (the hospitalero) recovered. It was here in this room that I received the epiphany that I […]
… again, the hostel of Jose Luis Anton in Tosantos. “Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that it is a good thing to “manifest your own desires”, and yet the Camino teaches us that Life loves us so much that every self-centered desire we have is inevitably taken from us.” ~ […]
… preparing dinner together with Jose Luis (center of picture). “Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that our own health is our primary asset, and yet the Camino teaches us that health is meaningless unless it is used to further the Peace of others.” ~ from my Camino journal
With the exception of my brother, Jose Luis does more with “little” in the kitchen than anyone I know. “Lesson from the Camino: Conventional “wisdom” would have us believe that “there are no shortcuts”, and yet the Camino teaches us that the Highest Good in any moment always flows the smoothest route; its Love always […]
Pilgrims from over a dozen different countries sharing the same table for the evening meal. We are indeed all ONE! “Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means being free from thinking about yourself at all.” ~ […]
… and then there was the singing together. The woman in this picture was a relatively famous television personality from Holland at the time (what a voice!), and the young man is from South Africa. “Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet, Through echoing forest and echoing street, With lutes in our […]
This HUGE lock was on the main portal of the local church. What does it say when our most sacred spaces must be protected from desecration by their own? And what can we each do to bring about a shift in the same? “Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings […]
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