Ruitelan is the commencement point for the steepest climb of the Camino — up to Ocebreiro. Maybe I was just getting fitter, but I didn’t find it all that challenging. I think the relative difficulty or ease of the particular stages of the Camino depend more on one’s inner state of Being than one’s level […]
“Life’s true Gift is not the immediate revelry in physical pleasure or emotional comfort, but rather the opportunity to consciously delay such gratifications in order to honor the Gifts one has already been given.” ~ from my Camino journal
“Realizing on the way up that everything in our past is an integral facet of each present moment, and that everything within our Here&Now is already an integral facet of every moment in or future. As such, an entire lifetime is actually one, single elongated moment.” ~ from my Camino journal
“One of the secrets of life is to find joy in the journey.” ~ Matthew Buckley
“The only journey is the one within.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
… into the mystical town of Ocebreiro … “I don’t know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.” ~ John P. Barlow
The church at Ocebreiro shrouded in mist, as the day turned steadily foggier & a storm rolled into town. The church has a small antechamber just inside with remarkably good acoustics (Jose Luis had told me about it while I was serving with him in Tosantos). I headed straight there to try it out upon […]
We awoke early and hit the Road while the town was still completely fogged in. After a time, of course, the fog cleared and we made our way smoothly along. The statue pictured here is eerily similar to the one Finisterre pilgrims see just before reaching the lighthouse at the coast.
“This breathtaking Universe of ours is not only strikingly intelligent in its operation, it is also a very friendly place. Our world wants us to live great lives, and it wants us to be Happy.” ~ Robin Sharma
“Note: whenever we ignore our opportunities to act with Faith-full* kindness, the Universe tends to re-mind us of our needless cowardice shortly thereafter. Of course, the faithless refuse to see these re-minders as such, and yet they are there to be seen nonetheless.” ~ Scaughdt *Note as well that when I speak of Faith, I […]
“But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a Work, to love its Beauty, and to wonder at its Vastness.” ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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