DG's Meanderings

Thursday, June 01, 2006

A passage found on a Camino board, which I think will be appropriate to mediate on during the walk:

"'Withdraw into yourself and look; and if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the does the sculptor of a statue.... cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is shadowed.... do not cease until there shall shine out of you the Godlike Splendour of Beauty; until you see temperance surely established in the stainless shrine.'For me, this quotation from Plotinus became alive on the Camino."

Here is a link to a map showing the Camino Frances, which I will pick up at St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, in northern France, close to the French-Spanish border:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/spancmno.html

1 Comments:

  • At 1:35 PM, Blogger Sil said…

    Here is another quote for your BLOG dear Pilgrim.
    "Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating." -Michael Crichton

     

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