Quotes Tagged "pilgrimage"

None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.

Let thy holy pilgrimage be a prayer to thy God.

Praying is a holy pilgrimage.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The holy pilgrimage is the pursuit of prayer.

Helping a human is equivalent of a hundred pilgrimages.

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

No pilgrimage is holier than compassion, no gospel is truer than kindness, no offering is grander than love.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.