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True Camino spirit?
- Thread starter Al the optimist
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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Irma Terblanche
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- 2015 French Way
That is so true. I would also like to thank you for encouraging us last year to do the trip!
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- Frances, autumn/winter; 2004, 2005-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself."
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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The best novel : EVER!...imho...
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Arminius
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- Camino Frances may 2016
A good piece of phrasing - G. G. Márquez was a renowned writer. Thks for sharing mspath.
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Arminius
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- Camino Frances may 2016
"(The evening with the photograph album)
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Trough the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning."
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets (East Coker).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Trough the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning."
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets (East Coker).
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My favourite Rumi quote.
Arminius
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- Camino Frances may 2016
Happiness tip: "The world needs to be more quiet."
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Luka
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The true Camino spirit? I got a letter from my health insurance company a few days ago:
"Hello, we received your declaration for the hospital costs you made in Spain. We processed it and you will find it in your online record... What a pity you had to quit your Camino. I walked the Camino myself and I can tell you that arriving in Santiago is worth all the pain and suffers. I hope you will get a chance to do it again. Kind regards, buen camino..."
The smile on my face stayed there for an hour!
"Hello, we received your declaration for the hospital costs you made in Spain. We processed it and you will find it in your online record... What a pity you had to quit your Camino. I walked the Camino myself and I can tell you that arriving in Santiago is worth all the pain and suffers. I hope you will get a chance to do it again. Kind regards, buen camino..."
The smile on my face stayed there for an hour!
Al the optimist
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What a nice thing to say. Well if that's true you are very welcome!
Wonderful Luka! You have passed the smile on!
Al the optimist
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A friend who teaches Creative Writing at our local University has told me that it it her favourite novel.
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trevorcc
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I had 8 days in hospital in Santiago whilst the insurance company did all and blamed all but I was in no hurry the hospital staff were great, eventually they agreed to pay, the next Camino a year later I went with another Insurer. My smile was for the great people of Spain and Thomas. Back again next yesr.