Sadly, we are often so distracted by constant change and daily pressures that we never stop and reflect upon our own uniqueness as individuals. In the middle ages, pilgrims believed that through the sacrifice of completing a pilgrimage to distant lands they would achieve new levels of understanding and enlightenment. To achieve our full potential, we must embark on an "inward pilgrimage" of personal development and mastery.   

In the summer of 2009, on my first day retracing the 500+ mile medieval pilgrims' route across northern Spain, I stood on a bridge that spanned both a small river and more than ten centuries of "pilgrimage" history that today is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was on this bridge and others like it throughout the mountainous corridors separating modern France and Spain that hundreds of thousands of pilgrims through the centuries have crossed as they followed "the Way of St. James."

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