“Neither success nor prosperity can be truly known while living detached from our surroundings. Indeed, everything else is but a mere gradation of superficial, materialistic, and ultimately meaningless earthly ambitions. In truth we came from the Earth, my friends, and as such therewith alone lies the only real path to our imminent awakening, to our […]
“Like the web-spinning spider, we are not meant to hunt for nourishment or strive for personal goals. Far better, indeed, to take our time and calmly spin a lovely web about us — with the longer the web taking to finish (Let it take a lifetime!), the more fabulous and the more effective its ultimate […]
“Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t ever see the tree. Preoccupied with the single tree, you miss the entire forest. Preoccupied with a single stone, you forget the flow of the road. Preoccupied with remembered troubles from the past or specific worries for the future, you deny the ever-present opportunities embedded in life itself. […]
The walk this afternoon was a truly lovely one — flowing along smoothly under sunny skies with a cool breeze gently nudging at my back; walking easily through surprisingly lush & mossy woods, and then into & through the quaint little townships of l’Hermet and Coroilles. And it was shortly thereafter that I came upon […]
Even though my hips had mostly recovered and my body was feeling mostly fit, obstacles like this one still gave me reasonable pause when encountered — and still provided me great joy once transcended … 😉 “It is important work to stem the workings of our ego’s inclination and turn our efforts towards slightly altering […]
It was at this point that I met up with Marco, a Camino pilgrim who was intent on “tenting” (i.e. carrying his shelter with him; preferring to sleep under the stars rather than under the more comfortable confines of hostels or hotels) his way all the way to Finisterre on the Spanish coast. We were […]
And yet another wayside Camino shrine was encountered on this day, and yet another shrine was added to in reverence … 🙂 “There is no hope for the man who strives to obtain a virtue in the abstract. While everyone has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil ones, that desire remains […]
“The man journeyed far, and as such heard and saw many strange things; learning that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the everyone encountered — that the path one believes long since christened as constant and unchangeable (or even straight and wide) often shifts in an instant (or becomes curved and […]
The day was nearing its end as I neared the small city of Montfaucon when I noticed a scallop shell — the traditional symbol of the Camino — emblazoned upon the front gate of a walled-residence on the very initial outskirts of town. Reason had me thinking that it still a bit too early to […]
I woke early this day, took another warm shower to “jump start” my still aching body, created Annick & Bernard’s “Peace Stone”, left the same on the kitchen table with a note of heartfelt thanks, and headed back out onto The Road just as the sun began rising behind me … 🙂 “Shakti Gawain has […]
Great beauty is not only to be found in sights amazing or happenstances that scintillate. In truth, great Beauty is always present in every visage, if we but choose to seek and notice the same … 😉 “The world is ever full of great beauty and magical things, all of them patiently waiting for our […]
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