This pilgrim’s rest-stop was completely deserted so early in the morning, and yet its fog-enshrined emptiness provided a vision of great beauty nonetheless, and its multinational scallop-shell tribute provided a vision of great hope for a greater world peace … 🙂 “To really change the world, we have to help others alter the way they […]
“The Cosmic Divine, our celestial Master, sees it all, whereas we, Its noble minions, do not. Indeed, whenever we walk along a long curvy road, we don’t see beyond the twists and turns until we are coming out of them. And yet when we remember to see things from a higher perspective, we can see […]
“Once your Soul awakens – once you round the misty bend and realize that you are a powerful servant of all that is greater and good, then the search for Purpose truly begins – and you can never go back to your previous miseries of hollow pleasure and fleeting comfort. Indeed, from that moment on […]
“There is an ancient conversation going on continually between moss and the rocks and trees upon which it resides – a most profound poetry to be sure. It is a poetry about light and shadow; a poetry about life and death; a poetry about being stolidly here, and yet just as much about the drift […]
I walked onward quite smoothly all the way to the little village of Mas de Dalat, where I came upon the local Gite d’Etape. It seemed like an inviting place and my legs were softly asking for a brief rest in the shade, so I decided to walk over to the hostel’s open doorway and […]
“One day, it might all make sense; one day it might all be revealed. Then again, it might very well not. And yet whether said certainty will one day come to us or not, one truth remains quite evident: We Are Here Now. We are here now to learn to live boldly and accept our […]
Even though we all have long way to travel, and even though we all only have a limited number of days to ‘get there,’ it is always wise to pause and explore the many wonderments that meet us along The Way. And so it was that I came across a sign telling me that the […]
“Pilgrimage always awakens a rebellious, archaic part of us: our appetites become rough and uncompromising, our impulses become inspired. Because walking longer distances puts us on the vertical axis of life: swept along by the torrent of earth that rushes just beneath us. I guess what I mean by this is that by walking purposefully […]
I thereafter walked into and through Limogne en Quency, a town that was strangely church-less, which might have been why I became so fixated on the church steeple of Variare – of the next village on The Way. I don’t regret this hyper-focus – an intense attention that inadvertently took me of the Camino entirely […]
One of the things I loved about my Walk was how it peeled back the more superficial layers of life to reveal the LOVE ever underneath. Whether I was walking along paths thickly carpeted by lush moss or traipsing along stony walkways dry and dusty, Love was always there – the soft give of moss […]
“Let Nature become your teacher once more, for from her you will learn again what is truly beautiful and who you truly are and what is your true quest in life and whither you should truly go and whom & how you should serve. We all live on an ineffable manna that is vouchsafed to […]
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