69 Quotes About Pilgrimage

[T]he route of a pilgrimage should serve its spiritual goal. Which may be simple or manifold, but which will partake of at least one of five aims: service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement.

Her eyes are full of sadness,I am on a pilgrimage since millennia.

Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.

Be on pilgrimageTo a place that's undefined,Destinationless

Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.

Jednou z prvních věcí, které vás na cestě napadnou, je to, že do cíle nemůžete nikdy dojít. Bolí vás nohy a záda, objevují se první puchýře a nemůžete vystát příšerné vedro. Je vám jasné, že v takovém stavu prostě 1400 kilometrů nemůžete vydržet. A je to jedině dobře. Když se slepě nesoustředíte na cíl, můžete si víc užívat přítomnost. Navíc přestanete počítat kilometry, které vás dělí od konce cesty, ale máte radost z těch, které už jste urazili. A to jsou výrazně veselejší počty.

Mexico, as it was in the 1970s—and isn’t now—was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities of a pilgrimage in which every moment was a movable feast and every place was a shrine. Among the intricately carved ruins in the jungle at Palenque, I partook of the Mayan sacrament, the sacred psilocybin mushroom, and there I learned to see.

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them becometrees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that itwas because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there somethinghumbling I needed to know?

Praying is a sacred pilgrimage.