Santiago De Compostela Quotes

Edimburgo o York o Santiago de Compostela pueden mentir eternidad; no así Buenos Aires, que hemos visto brotar de un modo esporádico, entre los huecos y los callejones de tierra.

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

People expect you to follow their "rules", to fit in, to be like the others, and when you consciously choose not to and you follow your inner voice, you don't belong there anymore.

When you pay attention to your inner voice, even if doesn't sound rational, you may live some of the most important experiences of your life.

As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape....A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each step is a thought. You can't escape yourself.

There is no dream without at least one chance to become reality.

If you constantly express your gratitude for everything that happens to you without judging things as good or bad, more miracles will come your way.

There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: "What are you going to do with this one glorious day?

It was amazing and scary at the same time. Having a dream is fantastic! Changing its status from "Dream" to "Reality", is freaking awesome, but it scares you to death in the beginning,

I have a friend who often tells me that I am resisting change. Could be... But when I do embrace it, it is quite life-changing, I would say!

For each progress you make jumping into the pain and mastering it, there is a divine reward waiting for your smile, gratitude and understanding.

Camino, in my view, is a metaphor for your own life...

Even if my body falls broken, my mind and spirit will carry me on!

people should walk this path even before they graduate" [...] "What's one month? It's not even a paragraph in the book of your life...

I have never planned on living long but I have always intended to live well.

There, at Finisterrre, I understood that life is a sum of Caminos we choose to take and each of them is a mix of joy, pain and full happiness. The balance is always in our hands!

Life is a brief shot at something incredible

Life is both too short and too long to live it half-heartedly.

Under a certain state of being, when the rational mind shuts down, Time and Space as our minds perceive them, change. So, if we are conscious enough, we can expand Time and compress Space.

The people you leave behind when you are going on this path, are like a watermelon on a hot day when they call, to check on you. Talking to them is refreshing and can even become addictive.

To feel the pull, the draw, the interior attraction, and to want to follow it, even if it has no name still, that is the "pilgrim spirit."The "why" only becomes clear as time passes, only long after the walking is over.

We are always exactly where we are supposed to be for our inner growth. The important thing is to remember that we are in the right place even in difficult times. This way we will suffer less and enjoy our personal journey more.

I found my own value system different there! I felt like a new person, one that was more focused on living her own life and mission. Unseen wings were already mature and ready to flap while freedom somehow became my best friend.

He's surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I've never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what's worse is that if someone asked both of us, I'm pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.

The city of Granada, so gloriously provided with architectural reminders of its Islamic heritage, was particularly anxious to show that it was a more ancient and distinguished Christian centre than Toledo or Santiago de Compostela, and it also wanted to outface the upstart royal capital Madrid. These aims were much assisted by the ‘discovery’ from 1588 onwards of a series of forged early Christian relics (plomos, or lead books) hidden in the minaret of the former main Granadan mosque and in various nearby caves.

Consider the so-called mistakes as new paths towards your destination. And if you take them as new opportunities, in fact, there are no mistakes! Just choices that lead you to a new reality and have different consequences. The secret is to always see the beauty in everything!

I hear a swelling swoosh; from the south a bullet train whizzes into view on the tracks, knives through the landscape in a matter of moments, then disappears with a whoosh. It has just covered in a few seconds what has taken me hours to walk. That very fast train reminds me that, as a pilgrim, travel is made holy in its slowness. I see things that neither the passengers of the train nor the drivers of the automobiles see. I feel things that they will never feel. I have time to ponder, imagine, daydream. I tire. I thirst. In my slow walking, I find me.

Deep inside I learnt that when you have a dream and you really wish for it to come true, things happen in a certain way to help you achieve it. And indeed, certain things started to move in the right direction and even if I didn't appreciate all of them as positive at that time [...]

In the end, we are never alone! We have friends all over the world, people that are coming on our life path if they are supposed to support us, teach us a lesson, or just walk with us for a while And while walking the Camino, it is very easy to see it all and to understand how blessed you are in this life.

It was very nice to realize how we can cancel the space that apparently divides people, and share with them our stories as if they were part of the same experience, bringing them closer to us. And I think that's the beauty of a story: you have the chance to live it somehow through the feelings of the storyteller.

Oddly, most narratives, both academic and personal, end when the goal is reached: the apostle is hugged, the Compostela is duly granted, and the pilgrim bids the Camino farewell and goes home. Although most first-person pilgrimage accounts are written after the journey is completed, the authors generally reveal only a glimpse into how the Camino continues to exist within their own lives. The experience is treated like a photo, a frozen memory; as if there were no flow between the pilgrimage itself and daily life. As pilgrims enter more deeply into the Camino it appears to leave an indelible mark, yet it is hard to discern the nature of this mark.

Then, step by step, you start to understand the difference that it produces inside yourself. And in the end, you choose who you want to be from that moment on. And when you reach that state of mind and being, you cannot undo what you just did. And you change. You transform yourself from a caterpillar into a beautiful colorful butterfly. You start to love your new colors, your wings, and once that process begins, you may develop this desire to fly up, and from up there, you see yourself first, then your life, your family, your friends, your job, everything. You start to compare your previous caterpillar perception, with the new butterfly one. If you like the caterpillar view, you stick to it. If not, you will change it completely. But this is not an easy overnight process. It takes time, patience, and perseverance to live like a butterfly.

Essentially, this thirst is not the longing for an extensive walk on the Camino. It's the longing of meeting your own being, outside the temptations of a fully materialistic world. Camino is just a channel, a concrete representation of your inner need to evade the loop your life is repeating over and over again, and find your true nature, your true voice, your true meaning on this planet. And when you walk this path, you complete a layer of your search.

Rennes-le-Château and its environs had been on the ancient pilgrim route, which ran from northern Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Local people say there are three very ancient lines of energy – ley lines – that converge here. And then there are three rivers that converge in this region, the Lot, the Garonne and the Dordogne. Three of the pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela from the north meet here too. Who knows? Call it what

The three great goals of pilgrimage were Rome, Jerusalem, and Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Along the route to the shrine of Saint James at Santiago, the Cluniac monks had organized hostels, a day’s journey apart, complete with barbers and cobblers.

Ég var aleinn á Götu Meistara Alberts. Var einn daginn á gangi þarna í grenndinni eftir götu heilags Jakobs, rue Saint-Jacques. Gatan liggur frá Notre Dame áleiðis niður í fjórtánda hverfi og svo áfram suður; þetta er fyrsti spottinn á pílagrímaleiðinni til Santiago de Compostela á Spáni og þess vegna heitir gatan í höfuðið á sankti Jakobi, Santiago.

According to other traditions, between the moment of death and the time of the body’s Christian burial, the soul undertakes a journey to the place of personal judgment, where its fate is determined while it awaits the Last Judgment. Quite often the writ is given to St. James of Compostela or involves passage over St. James’s Bridge, because Santiago is associated with the Milky Way as the road of the dead. We should recall that the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela follow the Milky Way toward the Campus Stellae, the Star Field. In Ariège and Couserans, the Milky Way is called Path of Souls,*55 which we can view in light of an ancient belief, which maintained that souls transformed into stars after dying.

This belief in a gathering of the dead23 into a throng before the final voyage closely agrees with and feeds a Christian myth that claims that between the moment of death and the time of Christian burial, the soul must undertake a journey to its place of judgment, where its fate will be fixed while it awaits Final Judgment. Often this stopping place occurs at or involves crossing over the Bridge of St. James—Santiago de Compostela*15—and is connected to the Milky Way as the road of souls.

summer of 2011, when the first call to walk the Camino Santiago de Compostela had tugged at my soul, I would not have known this was my why. A tug so fierce I had no choice but to follow, the next years would guide me to

I think historians have dealt a bad hand to Spain regarding its treatment of Jews. Of all the European nations that have mistreated Jews, Spain was the least cruel. Spain never persecuted Jews as a people; it persecuted Judaism as well as all other religious beliefs that fell outside the Catholic faith. Spain gave Jews the possibility of converting to Christianity and living under complete equality with gentiles.

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learned walking slowly along the Camino is a blessing for me. Although my knee occasionally hurts, I enjoy the walk, enjoy the country and the people I meet. For me, enjoying the journey is more important than reaching the destination. It’s the experiences leading to the destination that make the trip enjoyable and memorable, truth that applies to your journey through life, as well. Enjoy your walk through life, even if your knee hurts. Enjoy the world around you and the people you meet. That is what the journey is all about.

When Nicholas Flamel – one of the few who, according to the mystics and alchemists, was supposed to have discovered the Philosopher’s Stone – bought a papyrus [19] book in Paris, reputedly “at a small price,” it was a baptized Jewish physician, not a kabbalist, who in 1378, in the pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela, disclosed to him the meaning of the writing and therewith the secret of alchemy.

Since the pilgrim streams first began crossing this mountain top on their way to Compostela well over a millennium ago, to lay a stone atop this heap has been a poignant symbol of leaving behind that which is hard in our hearts, that which is cold in our lives, and turning those lives over to the warm embrace symbolized in the open arms of the cross of Christ.

Las siete prácticas que analizo en este libro son comunes a todas las religiones. Todas las religiones fomentan la gratitud. Hay peregrinaciones en todas las tradiciones; los hindúes van a templos dedicados a dioses y diosas, a montañas sagradas como el monte Kailash, y a ríos sagrados como el Ganges. Los musulmanes van de peregrinaje a la Meca, los judíos, cristianos y musulmanes van de peregrinación a Jerusalén. En la Europa occidental, los cristianos va a Santiago de Compostela, Roma, Canterbury y Chartres; los católicos irlandeses van a Croagh Patrich, la montaña sagrada de Irlanda, a Lough Derg, el lago sagrado. Reconectar con el mundo-más-que-humano forma parte de todas las tradiciones religiosas, y todas conectan de maneras espiritualmente significativas con las plantas. Los rituales son expresión de la espiritualidad y se hallan en todas las religiones y todas las sociedades seculares. Todas las tradiciones espirituales practican el canto y la salmodia.