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[qos]

iswari left this in comments earlier, in response to a post of mine about the pilgrimage aspects of my spiritual and personal lives. It deserves its own post:



"The conditions of a solitary bird are five:
The first, that it flies to the highest point;
The second, that it does not suffer for company, not even its own kind;
The third, that it aims its beak to the skies;
The fourth, that it does not have a definite color;
The fifth, that it sings very softly..."

~ San Juan de la Cruz, Dichos de Luz y Amor