69 Quotes About Pilgrimage

The sacred pilgrimage is praying.

The pilgrimage provided a sense of purpose. As well as the long march towards Jerusalem, it also knitted my life into the landscape. The months were replaced by the shifting seasons, while he weeks were measured out in rounds of worship. Staying in monasteries and convents, presbyteries and churches calmed what was restless within me, and during the regular services I noticed how the minutes slowed and the silence assembled, until the days were worth more than they had been before.

We are all on pilgrimage in the journey of ife. We are passing through the earth but once, it should be sacred bliss.

Jistě právě v tom tkví duch Cesty, v touze pojít světem proto, aby před ním člověk unikl, a najít druhé lidi tam, kde nikdo není. Jak napsal Alphonse Allais: „V pustině se lidé rádi sdružují...

And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence.

To feel the pull, the draw, the interior attraction, and to want to follow it, even if it has no name still, that is the "pilgrim spirit."The "why" only becomes clear as time passes, only long after the walking is over.

Is this what I am doing now?Watching the currents, passagesof life around me.I am not looking for books to explainmore with their words, butlistening to poets with their imagery, symbols, listening to my own feelings as Icontinue my pilgrimage in this life,pausing, watching, catching glimpsesof deeper down things.-Deeper Down Things

Pilgrimage had shown me what was radical about the wandering life, as on the road all tokens of status were left behind.

Life is a pilgrimage, and unless love is attained, it remains a pilgrimage, never reaching anywhere.