“It is said that for the one who truly understands Heavenly joy, life becomes the working of Heaven, and death but the transformation of things. In stillness, she and the yin share a single Virtue. In motion, he and the Yang share a single Flow … With this in mind, the only way to fully […]
The weather was gloriously overcast and the path was delightfully soft underfoot on this day, and I eventually made it in good spirits to the Church of Saint Quittere in Uzan, where paused for awhile – to announce my still-strong gratitude for The Way, to reaffirm my resolve to continue along its Meaning-thick lengths, and […]
“On more fundamental level, all of us are on the same path, and as such all of us are ultimately the same. In truth, to be human is to be consciously alive, and to be consciously alive is to be looking for something (or at the very least looking at something). The more primitive facets […]
The next town, with the unusual moniker of Géus-d’Arzacq, was not far down the Road, and I paused briefly inside its church – to profess my usual resolve-laden gratitude and to light the standard candle of honorful remembrance, of course, and yet also to enjoy the stained glass portrayal of Jesus holding a lamb – […]
“To make a godly home is to create a foretaste of Heaven. Indeed, our homes — imperfect as they innately are – must first and foremost be a haven from the chaos outside. And it is in this way that they serve as a reflection of our eternal home; a place where all troubled souls […]
I walked onward and entered the village of Pomps shortly thereafter. I knew that this was the pre-planned final destination for Stephane & Co., and yet it was somehow still too early in the afternoon for me to feel in any way good about stopping here for the night. So I headed to the local […]
This ostentatiously opulent gated mansion, appropriately located just across the street from the local church, readily caught my eye and profoundly disturbed my spirit … “People will often ask you the question ‘How is life treating you?’ And yet my question to you is this: ‘How are you treating life?’ For on that question, and […]
I saw Jackie in her yard as I was heading out of town, and was blessed to speak with her for awhile – powerfully testifying to my Walk and its underlying Way of Kindness; doing so fluidly in fact that she freely offered me a few apples and a loaf of bread for the Road […]
“The soulful walker (a.k.a. a true Nature Lover) will in many cases prefer to walk alone; and not because he revels in the joy of the same, or because his solitude shows him to be self-contained, or because all his adventures and experiences combine to make him independent of all company, or because by doing […]
Later I arrived in the village of Castillon, and paused there in its local church – a pause that, as usual, was filled with Peace & Purpose … “In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be humbly & courageously demonstrated, not something to be arrogantly & mentally believed. […]
“For real Love to truly live our Circle of Compassion must be repeatedly de-bordered, and this is why it is per se beneficial to walk in pilgrimage. For pilgrimage – especially those walks taken in lands strange or foreign – is by its very nature a forced widening of our horizons; both literally (i.e. the […]
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