[at-l] Re: Cabin Fever?

[datto_atl2@xxxxxxxxx (Datto)]

"So target a distant place - your Mecca, your Jerusalem,
your Mount Meru - and set out.  You needn't don a
hairshirt, for obstacles enough will erupt. But by
attending to them now - openness, attentiveness, and
responsiveness are the essence of pilgrimage - you will be
able to surmount them by yielding to them in the way that
life always requires that we yield to it.  And draw the
resilience you will need from those who have preceded you,
for pilgrims are a hardy breed. They trudge rough roads,
put in long days, and live on breadcrusts.  But hunger
turns those crusts into gourmet fare, and pilgrims sleep
well from their fatigue, even when their beds are hard
ground and stones are their pillows.  On clear nights the
stars that steer them cover them with their canopy and
token eternal."

>From another list where this passage from "The Art of
Pilgrimage,  The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred" by
Phil Cousineau was posted.

Datto


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