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I had a discussion with several pilgrims how one could explain the ‚Camino Magic’…. what makes the camino maybe different to other trekking routes…. and what is a compensation for the hard work of walking, the hot sun, sleeping in a dormitory and other camino-stuff…. until now everybody answered ‚es imposible / it is not possible‘ to explain it to someone who misses the experience.
I am Nick Cave fan and I love that you are quoting NC. I have actually thought that after the death of his teenage son in 2017 his family should have walked the CF but he is too famous.I read an interview with Nick Cave not too long ago, and I wrote down a quote of his that rang very true to me: "The idea that we live life in a straight line, like a story, seems to me to be increasingly absurd and, more than anything, a kind of intellectual convenience. I feel that the events in our lives are like a series of bells being struck and the vibrations spread outwards, affecting everything, our present, and our futures, of course, but our past as well. Everything is changing and vibrating and in flux."
And those who have heard the bell of the camino, and felt its vibrations course through them, are changed because of it. Maybe only in a small way, or considerably, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that the harmony that is your life will sound better than it did before.
Another Nick Cave (& The Bad Seeds; and The Birthday Party as well) fan here.I read an interview with Nick Cave not too long ago, and I wrote down a quote of his that rang very true to me: "The idea that we live life in a straight line, like a story, seems to me to be increasingly absurd and, more than anything, a kind of intellectual convenience. I feel that the events in our lives are like a series of bells being struck and the vibrations spread outwards, affecting everything, our present, and our futures, of course, but our past as well. Everything is changing and vibrating and in flux."
And those who have heard the bell of the camino, and felt its vibrations course through them, are changed because of it. Maybe only in a small way, or considerably, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that the harmony that is your life will sound better than it did before.
True, trueHere in Australia we have a saying about the region called the Northern Territory - "You'll never, never know if you never, never go." I think that largely applies to the Camino as well.
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