- The relativity of space and time: It is not the same 10 km at 6 am than 10 km by midday.
- The importance of selecting your steps and making sure that you have your feet on the ground.
- There are more good people than bad people in the world but bad people get more attention.
- What is essential to survive: Water and good shoes.
- The little pleasures: The shower, eating when you are hungry, drinking when you are thirsty, going to the toilet, sleeping, the shadow.
- Finding your rhythm is essential to walk comfortably: You cannot go too fast but you cannot go to slow either.
- Silence exists.
- The pilgrim does not demand, he thanks. But applying this philosophy in live I will probably get fired.
- God may exist or not but something that moves thousands of people during hundreds of years deserves respect.
- Beauty can take multiple forms.
- The Light of the early morning can make any scenery magic, the light of midday, cruel.
- If you walk enough you can empty your mind. If you empty your mind you can refill it.
- Everybody needs to be alone. Everybody needs to share time with others.
- If you explore your limits you may enhance them.
- If you work to reach an aim you may reach it or not but you will always learn something in the process.
- If you cook for four people, six people will end up eating.
- The casual encounters may be the most fascinating ones.
- It is much harder to make one step back than two forward but sometimes it is necessary.
- Thinking is something you do alone. Having ideas requires human contact.
- There are as many ways to do the Camino as people walking.
- Reaching destination is not the most important thing. It is actually not necessary.
- There are people that die while walking. I do not think this is the most terrible death.
- The way down can be much harder than the way up.
- There are a lot of things that do not depend on you in the Camino. Try to control what do depend on you and do not bother about the rest.
- If you say hello they may say hello. If you do not say hello it is not likely that they say hello.
- The sun makes you sweat but it also dries your clothes.
- Almost always you can make a step further but not always it is wise to do it.
- To communicate with somebody the most important thing is the will to communicate.
- You always have to stop and help who needs it. The Camino it is going to be there whether you do it earlier or later.
- You have to try to drink water from all the fountains. The next one may be too far away.
- Nobody can make the Camino for you but they can always encourage you to keep on going.
- Probably living following the philosophy of the Camino is impractical. The problem is the philosophy or the life style?
# posted by Erasme de Delft (Modèstia apart) @ 11:00 a. m.
