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Second time huh? How many days did you walk the first time?
Funny, but I wouldn't do it again....
I'll close off my blog with the logic in detail. But mainly this.....
I walked the Camino at a time in my life that I needed a break. Isolation. Solitude. Time to think. Reflect. Re-prioritise.
What i got was a very powerful physical, emotional and spiritual journey. Far above my expectations.
It's job is done. It worked. Any repetition would be meaningless. For Me At Least. I would be constantly comparing it with my first time. ..
Many others I spoke to thought the same....
But I guess it all depends on the reasons we walk the Camino. ..
Yes...and we aren't any different from that constantly changing river. We change all the time without noticing it. So the Camino river changes, and we change...and being in touch with that brings the fantastic freshness of really being there with what's happening rather than with the stale memory of another time.Even if one has not changed, the river always does - - by successive moments it is never the "same" river.
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Once you discover something you love why would you go anywhere else? I feel the Camino still has things to teach me and I'm a more than willing student.
Sarah
It never should. Anything in life that is about reaching a destination is not worth doing.Another reflection comes up reading your post...does the Camino ever end?
Well, of course it does. But it doesn't too.
I just wanted to say that I really loved reading the way that you have expressed your thoughts about the 'mystery'of the camino here . It really resonates with me. Thankyou .A very personal and individual reflection and question.
A very good one, important one.
I don't have answers . just vague musings and hunches. I don't have a plan/intend to walk/pilgrim again with a specific date/year in mind/heart ... but i can certainly see myself walking the camino again - with a slow deliberate pace, without rush or agenda.
some books, experiences, places reveal their mystery over time, peeling away layers of insights and recognitions. through those, we encounter ourselves.
for e.g. i can re-read the Tao de Ching over and again and come across phrases, sentences, images that reveal something, point to something, that previously i was not 'ripe' to perceive, to notice or to bother with.
i am drawn to read it again and again. in stages, in parts, with intervalls. no agenda - just grateful that i have this treasure in my life.
similar with my garden. being drawn to sit in it whenever i can. it is always soothing, lovely and a gift. anew, and full of wonder, simple mysteries.
the pilgrimage is like that in many ways.
do we always need to know what draws us and why? often we declare we are done with something. but is it done with us?
it will make itself known to me if i were to embark again onto the camino.
what i have learned yet again on the camino is that life itself is a pilgrimage. we are all part of some sort of caravan, just passing through.
everything we own was given to us, everything will leave us again.
and the camino, and any pilgrimage for this matter, makes this clear in strong and in very subtle ways. it's the fabric what always shines through, speaking for myself here.
thanks for posting this thread ...
very best wishes ~
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