Testimony Musings from the Camino de Santiago De Compostela
- Thread starter Paolo
- Start date
14 July 2019
Life lessons from the Camino
Life lessons from the Camino
A pilgrimage of the heart
The inner life or the inner universe:
The infinite potential for change within a human being is a life long pilgrimage to being human.A distant trek is nothing more than a series of small steps:
Live one moment as a whole of time and the whole of time becomes that moment.When money becomes the ends rather than the means to an end, life’s meaning is distorted:
We make money to spend time, we don’t spend time to make money. We make money to live life, not we live life to make money.Don’t micro mange your pilgrimage rather macro mange your trip:
Plan your trip in order and leave the the details to chaos.Encounters and departures are two sides of the same coin:
When you encounter someone, you first meet the being and when you depart you leave the human.Putting others ahead of yourself:
One’s life is a narrow path, sometimes difficult, sometimes easy, sometimes shared and sometimes alone, all life belongs to us just as our life belongs to all.Walking alone for the sake of walking is an exercise that engages the whole you. It is an experience in experiencing self, it is a meditative act:
Walking alone grants us the opportunity to discover our relationship to our shadow person.We need very little in life, less is more and more is less:
Too much is an evil that chokes our soul, too little is an evil that chokes our life.We are all essentially the same, yet unique:
We are the same as to the space we share, we are unique as to the moments of time we spend.On the Camino time is compressed especially as to self discovery and interpersonal relationships:
To be vulnerable is courage in the face of fear, to share your fears is faith in the face of another and to have faith in the face of another is to love unreservedly.