It just so happened that the town of Triacastela was throwing its inaugural Pilgrims festival as I walked through on this day, and yet the entire vibe was somehow overtly ostensible and innocuously insincere – with church-group leader Oscar being superficially sweet (nodding enthusiastically while listening to the nature & purpose of my Walk while […]
“Open your clenched fists and let what comes come. Let what goes go. You are ever allowed so much more than what two mere fists can hold. It is only those who flow as life flows who make a river out of their living. As such, refuse to desire for everything to happen as you […]
“If I’ve learned anything from facing death, it is that life is not meant to be survived. In truth, life is the greatest adventure there is. And why would we ever stop our adventuring when someone says the end might be near? The truth is, we never know when the end will actually arrive, and […]
“A godly home must offer a foretaste of Heaven. In truth, our homes, imperfect as they might ever be, should be arranged & maintained so as to provide a haven from the chaos outside – as much for our fellow brothers & sisters as for ourselves. They should be a reflection of our eternal home […]
The day had been a long & arduous one, physically as well as emotionally to be sure, and yet even had The Way been ever smooth and joyful, nothing could have dulled the stirringly Soul-deep sense of Peace that comes to all who first round that fateful bend on The Way and catch their first […]
The monastery drew me down into its valley and steadily to its door. I had experienced great Peace here 11 years ago on my first Camino pilgrimage, and had heard great things about the place from many along my current Walk. And yet when I arrived at its wonder-resplendent doors, I found them closed, with […]
I made my way around the back of the monastery to the municipal albergue located at its back. For whatever reason I was certain that this was to be a place of solace and honor – the former for my weary feet & tired Soul, and the latter for my message of Love & Peace. […]
It was a loooooong slumber indeed (all the way to 4am) that brought me to my next new day, and I awoke to a most pleasant surprise – in the form of an anonymous gift that had been offered by a fellow pilgrim(s) in the night; a gift that took the form of 2 peaches […]
There is something truly magical for me about walking reverently – quietly & calmly & attentively – into the still-dark freshness of a newly birthing day … “Of course the world is sacred; full of numina – what many people from many cultures have & still do call gods. And while some would give the […]
“Real faith is about doing; how you are choosing to act, not merely what you choose to believe. With this in mind it is crucial to regularly remember that we are all born as divine children of Love’s most wonderful secret – and that we are all on a journey to return to that glorious […]
“As I have experienced it, landscape projects onto us not like a mere jetty or peninsula, but instead as a bold ray of sunlight, sometimes flickeringly unmappable, and yet always both quickening and illuminating. Many of us are adept, if not also occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of particular places, and yet few […]
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