In 1989, Dr. Henry Jones Jr., a.k.a. Indiana Jones, told his class that 70% of all archeology is done in the library. But in 2008, he said to one of his students, "If you want to be a good archeologist, you've gotta get out of the library."
What made Dr. Jones change his mind?
I am reminded of this pastor in a church in Santa Monica who said, "At some point, you have to close your Bible, because you don't need more information; you need imagination." I didn't fully grasp this until I was walking the Camino de Santiago. I was playing with anagrams in my journal and discovered that if you rearranged the letters in CAMINO DE SANTIAGO, they spelled ACADEMIA INTO SONG.
The fulfillment and resolution of the law of karma is the following:
One drop of joy is so potent it will transform concern into compassion. That is the ability to give of yourself in the knowledge that whatever it is you give will return to you, improving your life and the lives of those around you.
One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought.
One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy. The ability to know that your emotions are real, and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness.
When you realize the energetics of all things, you understand that God resides in all things.
This, then, is the unification of the upper and lower chakras, where you marry the masculine and feminine in yourself--the God and Goddess within yourself.
The law of karma is not the return of events, but more the return to your soul. As you come into the God, your ability to wave through everything is restored.
Your inability to move is the definition of sorrow.
When you empty yourself out of sorrow, you enable yourself to receive the next level of joy.
The Holy Grail is an example. It is like any other cup except its real value lies in its emptiness. The joy comes when the cup is emptied.
Therefore, the joy and the sorrows along the Camino are the rediscovery of your own soul.
Mankind, therefore, has a moral duty to seek joy.
joy - a feeling of great pleasure/happiness
concern - anxiety/worry
compassion - "to suffer together"/the feeling when you are confronted with the suffering of others and moved to relieve it
courage - strength to face pain or grief; ability to do what frightens you
passion - strong and barely controllable emotion or enthusiasm
discipline - controlled behavior based on a commitment to a set of principles
empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another