Jerry Meyer > Quotes

“It was I who determined how I felt, she reminded me, not the surroundings. Be grateful.”
― Jerry Meyer, Go Slow, Plan Little, Walk Forever: Along the Camino de Santiago and Beyond

“Not for the wife to keep house, but to be a partner, someone to share strengths and weaknesses and make something even greater through union. To make sure neither one of you gets overwhelmed. To help make time and space for yourself, both of you.”
― Jerry Meyer, Go Slow, Plan Little, Walk Forever: Along the Camino de Santiago and Beyond

“The Camino. It’s not to get to know myself. I’ve repeated the condensed version of the story of my life so many times to others along the Way it sounds to me stale and formulaic. Even irritating. I’m from here, I did this, I do that, and I think such and such, that is me. For all the events in life I have found so consuming, so defining, I can see how petty and inconsequential they are. No, that’s a little too nihilistic. But being compelled to repeat my story so often I can see it is not all that I am. These headlines, where I’m from, the work I’ve done or do, the things I’ve seen and experienced and made, the people I know or have known, my beliefs and perspectives, the things I’ve yet to do but want to, I cling to them even as they turn to dust. The telling and retelling, I’ve begun to see, ultimately liberates you from your narrative, if you allow it to. The”
― Jerry Meyer, Go Slow, Plan Little, Walk Forever: Along the Camino de Santiago and Beyond