Quotes About Pilgrimage

Reading was a brave spiritual journey for Elena Hood, and little piles of books were for her like the stacks of rubble—the Tibetan prayer walls—that marked the progress of pilgrims.

I am still looking

Solvitur Ambulando It is solved by walking

pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.

pilgrimages or crusades. Even a monk must

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

Such seem'd this Man, not all alive nor dead,   Nor all asleep; in his extreme old age:   His body was bent double, feet and head   Coming together in their pilgrimage;   As if some dire constraint of pain, or rage   Of sickness felt by him in times long past,   A more than human weight upon his frame had cast.

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

Travel is the dream of travelers.

Le pèlerinage est, avec la guerre, la plus ancienne cause du déplacement des hommes.

It's the bond of trauma, the bond of sharing an indescribable experience together. Whatever happens, no one else in their lives will ever fully comprehend the ordeal of this pilgrimage, the characters they've met, the fear that travels with them, the grief and fatigue that eat at them. Their collective determination to keep pressing north.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

the place I was bound for on my latest pilgrimage was filled with living, first-hand memories of all the enchanted years that lie between two and eighteen. How enchanted those years are is made more and more clear to me the older I grow. There has been nothing in the least like them since; and though I have forgotten most of what happened six months ago, every incident, almost every day of those wonderful long years is perfectly distinct in my memory.

People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

It is a pilgrim's spiral path leads to this mountain's brow...It can never become familiar; you are lost the moment you set foot there. You know no path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud...It is as if you trod with awe the face of a god turned up, unwittingly but helplessly, yielding to the laws of gravity. -Henry David Thoreau

E?ek dervi? olmaz odun çekmekle tekkeye, deve hac? olmaz gidip gelmekle Mekke'ye.

The journey through the house becomes a journey through time; with its small rooms and hidden corridors, its whispered asides and sudden revelations, it resembles a pilgrimage through life itself.

I am forever on the way

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches,but not one wooden leg.

Nous, les âmes nomades, avons le culte des vestiges et du pèlerinage. Nous ne bâtissons rien de durable, mais nous laissons des traces. Et quelques bruits qui s'attardent.

one always goes "up" to Jerusalem; one could be on the moon and still go "up" to Jerusalem

I went to Ayodhya, offered my prayers, I got respect even when I was not the Chief Minister.