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Live with What Is Necessary |
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viernes, 30 enero 2004 |
Always remember that it is more important to be than to have. We must
learn to live with little, to discover that life requires very few
things, and that our wealth is within us.
The Camino is a demanding school of judgment between what is necessary
and what is excessive because everything has weight and we cannot carry
everything. Do you remember your backpack? It is what makes us realize
that everything weighs and how difficult it is to carry everything. We
have to overcome the idea of possessing things that enslave us to
acquire more and more. Always remember that it is more important to be
than to have. We must learn to live with little like on the Camino, to
discover that life requires very few things, and that our wealth is
within us. We must unmask the obsessive habits that make us
close-minded, that keep us in our self-centered world which does not
help us live with others. We have to free ourselves from the pressure
to be better than anyone else or ourselves because we are essentially
the same and everyone’s backpack is heavy. We have to learn to walk a
little more open-mindedly, to be more humane. Your backpack should help
you think about life’s loads, those things that make the road slow.
These loads are personal problems, mistakes, or errors that weigh us
down and sometimes overburden us. We need to let go of all those
personal loads too.
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