I should have walked from Leitrim to Santiago de Compostela but I cheated via IrishTimesLife
The rest of the pilgrims were gathering in the pews before the midday Mass and using their phones to capture the magnificent architecture. Many of them were kitted out in hiking boots with water bottles dangling from rucksacks, but she stood out from the crowd and later in the sunlight I managed to speak with her.“I’d like to do it too,” I replied. ”But maybe I don’t have enough faith to traipse across Spain as a religious pilgrim.
Many years ago I met another woman of similar faith who liked to quote Rumi, the great poet of Islam. “According to Rumi, the soul is like a mirror reflecting divine presence,” she said. “Just like a lake reflects the moon.” I suppose that’s the unique nature of the moon in any single place – it embodies a kind of transcendence. It can imbue the “local” with ontological significance. So much so that we stand transformed in the moonlight. We dance in the moonlight as if where we stood was the single locus of all cosmic origination.
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