439/499 … flowing within The Flow (10/29/08)
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Avoid resisting them … Let reality be reality. Allow things to flow naturally forward in whatever way they wish.” ~ Lao Tsu
440/499 … open bridges (10/29/08)
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” ~ A. A. Milne
441/499 … a life of Miracles (10/29/08)
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
442/499 … compromising Compromise (10/29/08)
“Who am I to decide which path is ‘worthy’? As long as I Love others courageously, there can be no compromise, and there can be no failure failure.” ~ anonymous
443/499 … Wealth is in the sharing (10/29/08)
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” ~ John Holmes
444/499 … arriving & moving (10/29/08)
We make it to our hostel in Nigreira. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tsu (A good traveler never ceases to travel towards his Destination, … and never ceases to arrive wherever she already is.)
445/499 … the Harvest in the Giving (10/29/08)
These very old corn-cribs were regularly seen today along the Way. “Judge not each day by the harvest you reap, but rather by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
446/499 … persistence & Faith (10/30/08)
Today was another one of those days that shatter previous limits as far patience and endurance are concerned. Not only did we walk well over 20 miles (much father than Mom had ever walked in one day), but three times did we enter a town that began with the same name as our hostel’s village, […]
447/499 … on Thank-fullness (10/30/08)
“The conscious melding of humility with gratitude allows the Universe to fill all your life’s voids … real Gratitude never merely copes, just as true Love cannot merely tolerate.” ~ anonymous
448/499 … the Walk neverending (10/31/08)
“A good start is half the work.” ~ Irish proverb (a Good Start is realizing that there is no finish)
449/499 … on thinking vs. Being (10/31/08)
For some odd reason, the kilometer countdown to the coast starts to be displayed verrrrry exactly on the Way-markers, and often in seemingly Meaning-filled numerological combinations … hmmmm. “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” ~ Camino graffiti [Knowing & knowledge often don’t mix; neither do Perception & pondering]
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