Day 081k: A modern day Meanderer … (July 04, 2019)
“Perhaps the itinerant monks were especially responsible for promoting the view of the human condition being like eternal strangers. For they journeyed ceaselessly from monastery to monastery, with no fixed abode, and they haven’t quite disappeared, even to this day. They walk for their entire lives – on narrow mountain paths and broad city streets, down forested trails and across barren tundras — back and forth they stroll on a long-repeated round, sleeping at nightfall wherever their feet have taken them. They spend their lives uttering prayers on foot, walking all day with neither destination nor goal, this way & that, taking branching paths seemingly at random, turning, returning, without going anywhere – and yet all the while doing so to relay the message of selfless community by embodying the same. And so it is through their purposeful wandering they show us to literally all be One, and dispel the delusion of us needing to live as permanent strangers in this profane world.” ~ inspired by Frederic Gros
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