It was fascinating to sit back and see how I had indeed landed in a Camino-based, “self-help”, Zone 2 yoga paradise – not at all “the vibe” in any way in harmony with my Cosmos-based, service oriented, Zone 3 Peace Pilgrim gig, and yet a glorious gaggle of well-intended and highly beautiful Souls nonetheless. There […]
While it would have been quite fine indeed to have been allowed to mingle with the over half dozen hospitaleros & hospitaleras who were on hand (for some reason the dinner table was segregated, with the “helpers” sitting together at one end of the dinner table and the pilgrims nestled together on the other), dinner […]
Despite the stark & fundamental differences between my selfless moral outlook and the mostly self-focused ethical stance of the hostel & almost all of its residents, there was one Deep Connection that was made in Orbigo that day. Sonja (from Germany, no less) took an instant & highly fascinated liking to The Walk as soon […]
And once more the Sun set on yet another serendipitous Sanctuary – once more I found myself surrounded by many who didn’t truly See Me and yet many who were deeply loved all the same – and once more I moved silently in the night to a spare space of solitude, to spare the same […]
As was usually the case for me on this (and every) pilgrimage, I woke very early from a good night’s slumber and began the new day in solitudinous peace – admiring the art on the hostels’ living room walls (slow & steady indeed wins The Race because slow & steady no longer cares about “winning”) […]
I frequently started each day’s walk in the pre-dawn darkness, and I always enJOYed the Peace of doing so whenever I was so blessed. “So it is said, for him who more fully understands heavenly joy, that life is the working of Heaven and that death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and […]
It was smooth walking once more this morning – easily to & through the tiny still-sleepy village of Abierta, and then onward to far-less-sprawling-than-last-time “Art-Stop” that I still remembered well from my 2008 Camino … “Art is the illusion that enables us to see the Truth. It washes away from the Soul of things the […]
“Each day is born with a sunrise and each day ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. None of us control how our stories begin or end, and yet by now we all should know that all things have an […]
“In me was shaping an open embrace for a higher kind of consciousness, a manner of being that the man-made world about me had said could never be, must never be – a bold shift of self upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the newborn light of a northern morn […]
After another while of walking, I came to an odd, middle-of-nowhere donativo stand on the side of The Way; a stand run by Luca – who heard a bit about my Walk and kindly offered me an instant coffee; Luca – who recognized in both my accent and my intended destination an originally American heritage; […]
I still do not exactly know what it is about this particular overlook that strikes me as being so beautiful – indelibly imprinting itself upon my memory back in 2008, and re-imprinting itself upon my Soul on this day as well. Was it the ancientness of its monument littered with the stone-offerings of hundreds of […]
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