“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.” IfsBelieveLittlesSelfTogetherRememberLife IsSpiritTurnsI BelieveWaterLandHumilityStrangeWalkingHolySacredMovedForgottenI Believe InBonesBelieverDesertLandscapeTestamentGatheringPilgrimageMoved OnMiragesDrawn Together Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.” WayStepsJourneyTravelSacredEndlessEach DayShiftingFluidEvery StepArrivalsPilgrimageTerrain Author:Anthony Lawlor
“I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.” IfsFeelsFirstsExpectationsFirst TimeSacredHelplessSolemnPilgrimage Author:Marsden Hartley
“Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.” WritingArtAmericaFormArtistTakenMusicianSacredPilgrimageSacred Places Author:William Zinsser
“The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.” PeopleWayMeanSpiritualUsedHeavenCommonJourneyRiversCrossesIndiaSacredDimensionsShoreCrossingsUndertakingsPilgrimageSpiritual JourneyShrinesSacred Places Author:Diana L. Eck
“I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.” Has BeensJobsVoicePathFiveFourHeardRiversSacredObstaclesPilgrimage Author:Hermann Hesse
“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.” IfsSelfRememberFoundHolySacredForgottenDesertPilgrimage Book:Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.” WorldI CanPhilosophyBodySpiritualSpiritualityMy OwnInspiringSacredMedicineProfoundSensesPilgrimageSomaSacred Places Author:Saraha
“Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body” LifeWellsBodyMy OwnSunMoonRiversSacredBuddhistTemplesPilgrimage Author:Saraha
“To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.” WorldHeartWholePrayerPrayingSacredWhole WorldSmall ThingsPilgrimage Author:Wayne Muller
“Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.” KindSacredEightBe KindSixtyPilgrimageShrinesBathing Author:Guru Nanak
“The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.” PeopleWantGivingMeanTodayOrderTurnsCuttingSacrificeJourneyGiving UpConsequenceSacredWestWheelsLabyrinthPilgrimageBoonSamsaraWheel Of Life Author:Anthony Lawlor
“Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.” MeanLosesJourneyNeededSacredGloriousMaskFinding YourselfPilgrimageLosing YourselfSacred PlacesRemote Places Author:Phil Cousineau