Kevin A. Codd > Quotes

“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.”
― Kevin A. Codd, Beyond Even the Stars: A Compostela Pilgrim in France

“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.”
― Kevin A. Codd, Beyond Even the Stars: A Compostela Pilgrim in France

“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.”
― Kevin A. Codd, To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela

“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.”
― Kevin A. Codd, Beyond Even the Stars: A Compostela Pilgrim in France