Peachy
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2013 July/ august
I realise it might be considered ..perhaps..a sort of sacrilege to step off the camino for a time,..but my heart pulled me to Leon, ..I never knew anything of it, just like i knew little of the camino itself a few months back.
my feet were so sore and blistered i was walking like a drunk zombie for 22 kms or so,.. a shuffling motion till i got to Sahagun,..and yet i was happy!
...just 12 hours before i had been feeling very disturbed, bored really as i had no one to talk to as i had to slow down and found myself in a group of young twenty somethings with no common language ..and i was feeling very reflective too
...I allways follow my intuition in life, so i decided i really better here also,..and as soon as i got on the train to leon,..my heart..it sang to me...allmost literally...( lucky man by the verve ),...my feet started dancing a little jig ,..i could feel my eyes shine as if i was a child. This excitement fizzed all around and inside my body, my soul was bursting.
When I got to Leon,..ohhhh...it felt so special to me somehow,.,the lions gracing the streets, the river,..I had randomly booked a room at an affordable hostel not knowing exactley where it was located till i arrived. They gave me room 303 on floor 3. My special number, and one that has followed me on this walk, ..and my lifes walk.
Then I saw it.
The Cathedral
the beauty.
and that was just the outside.
The Cathedral of Light they call it,..and i went in today...I have not seen such beauty in a building before,..I felt transcended...the light that shone through the most intricate designs, ..the colours...to call them jewel like would do them no true justice,..some shaped and laid out like mandalas .
I was transfixed ,.in awe ,.and allmost tearfull...joy..wonder...I work with mandalas at 'home' so this was why i felt so called ...to see this most beautiful structure of gorgeous colours and the space inside.
one could easily imagine falling to the knees and knowing 'god' there
so tommorrow I step back on the camino,..although in truth this was not off it,..this was destiny.
..I also found a book in english here, by Paulo Coelho,,,Aleph..I'm so happy and i wish to savour it..slowly...along the next part of my journey.
I ate a tub of strawberry icecream, ..i wandered the streets,..i let my feet heal and breathe...I allowed my personal insights to be processed.
I felt thankfull and blessed.
..although i feel concerned about something here at this place i'm staying. I hear an older woman yelling alot, viciously..at some young girls/ woman. since last night,..and on and off through the day,..i cant understand the language and i dont know the facts, but it seems as if they do the cleaning here. The tone is abusive and i dont say that lightly. Its not my place to enquire , but reading a past review of this place,.another guest also experienced this. I really cant do anything but send good energy it seems, and compassion.It's not pleasant to hear someone yelling consistently,..and i wonder if my compassion should be for the woman who feels so angry, more than the recipients. I know nothing but it's hard to ignore.
my feet were so sore and blistered i was walking like a drunk zombie for 22 kms or so,.. a shuffling motion till i got to Sahagun,..and yet i was happy!
...just 12 hours before i had been feeling very disturbed, bored really as i had no one to talk to as i had to slow down and found myself in a group of young twenty somethings with no common language ..and i was feeling very reflective too
...I allways follow my intuition in life, so i decided i really better here also,..and as soon as i got on the train to leon,..my heart..it sang to me...allmost literally...( lucky man by the verve ),...my feet started dancing a little jig ,..i could feel my eyes shine as if i was a child. This excitement fizzed all around and inside my body, my soul was bursting.
When I got to Leon,..ohhhh...it felt so special to me somehow,.,the lions gracing the streets, the river,..I had randomly booked a room at an affordable hostel not knowing exactley where it was located till i arrived. They gave me room 303 on floor 3. My special number, and one that has followed me on this walk, ..and my lifes walk.
Then I saw it.
The Cathedral
the beauty.
and that was just the outside.
The Cathedral of Light they call it,..and i went in today...I have not seen such beauty in a building before,..I felt transcended...the light that shone through the most intricate designs, ..the colours...to call them jewel like would do them no true justice,..some shaped and laid out like mandalas .
I was transfixed ,.in awe ,.and allmost tearfull...joy..wonder...I work with mandalas at 'home' so this was why i felt so called ...to see this most beautiful structure of gorgeous colours and the space inside.
one could easily imagine falling to the knees and knowing 'god' there
so tommorrow I step back on the camino,..although in truth this was not off it,..this was destiny.
..I also found a book in english here, by Paulo Coelho,,,Aleph..I'm so happy and i wish to savour it..slowly...along the next part of my journey.
I ate a tub of strawberry icecream, ..i wandered the streets,..i let my feet heal and breathe...I allowed my personal insights to be processed.
I felt thankfull and blessed.
..although i feel concerned about something here at this place i'm staying. I hear an older woman yelling alot, viciously..at some young girls/ woman. since last night,..and on and off through the day,..i cant understand the language and i dont know the facts, but it seems as if they do the cleaning here. The tone is abusive and i dont say that lightly. Its not my place to enquire , but reading a past review of this place,.another guest also experienced this. I really cant do anything but send good energy it seems, and compassion.It's not pleasant to hear someone yelling consistently,..and i wonder if my compassion should be for the woman who feels so angry, more than the recipients. I know nothing but it's hard to ignore.
