title: Continuing Caritas Journey-Reflections Upon a Shared Private Pilgrimage.
abstract: This manuscript is a continuing saga of an earlier walking pilgrimage (El Camino in northern Spain): now a journey to Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, this time with others instead of alone. As I journeyed in close company with five others we experienced and expressed surprises about our selves and each other-our shared vulnerability, tolerance, and humility-uncovering lessons in living Caritas. As I trekked through these inner and outer adventures, Bhutan was discovered as a light of hope-a living metaphor of a people and a culture that hold and practice Caritas principles of loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity for all sentient beings. Bhutan, a small country bordered by China and India, the only country in the world with a gross national happiness index and shared Caritas consciousness of oneness and connectedness of all, serves as a sacred path for humanity-a geographic Bodhisattva.
authors: University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing, Watson Caring Science Institute.
authors: Jean
authors: J
authors: Watson
mesh_terms: D001631:Bhutan; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009390:Nepal; D018609:Tibet; D014195:Travel / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Bhutan; Caring Science; Caritas; spiritual pilgrimage