Jun 8, 2018
SILENT COMPANIONS ON THE CAMINO (V)
Photo: Philip Chircop
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SILENT COMPANIONS ON THE CAMINO (V)
Photo: Philip Chircop
WALKING MEDITATION RANDOM IMAGES FROM JERUSALEM 33
On the same day I took this picture, a quip by American stand-up comedian, actor, writer Steven Wright, landed in my mailbox:
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
And I happen to believe that that’s absolutely true for both outward and inward journeys!
Photo: “Walking Meditation” by Philip Chircop (Jerusalem, April 2018)
Just now! The enchanting beauty of the moment!
SPIRITED GATHERING
all the companions i met along the way today
pigs eyes and ears flowers fragrances snails colours cows sheep curves, lines and shapes
led me from the awesome verdant cathedral of nature to the unassuming dimly lit church in town
and together, in one magnificent sound of Silence we sang a Pentecostal song of awakening that melted all the walls separating the sacred from what some people still believe is profane.
Photo: © Philip Chircop (Church in Valcarlos, a Basque town in Navarre, northern Spain)
FRAGRANCE
My companion on the road today.
It has been said that a flower does not need to preach. It simply spreads its fragrance. The fragrance is its own sermon.
And I listened all along as best as I could to all kinds of scents and fragrances including the ones I am not accustomed to such as manure!
Photo: © Philip Chircop
NATURE ON A PILGRIMAGE OF ITS OWN The view from my window this evening.
Photo: Philip Chircop, St Jean Pieds de Port (May 2018)
THE CAMINO: A TIME FOR REFLECTION
ON PEOPLE AND SUNSETS
"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color.’ I don’t do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds."
—Carl Rogers, A Way of Being (Houghton Mifflin; 1 edition, 1980) page 22
Photo: Philip Chircop | Sunset over the Danube (Matthias Church in Budapest at sunset. July 2018.