Michael Leunig

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Australian Cartoonist

Eric Clapton

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

British Musician

Milind Soman

What we call endurance sport today, we've been doing for centuries with pilgrimages, walking across the earth towards some goal, which is not all-important, because it's the journey that matters.

Indian Model

Swami Sivananda

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Indian Philosopher

Morris West

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Australian Writer

Anita Brookner

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

English Historian

Johnny Flynn

I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them.

South African Musician

John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

English Clergyman

A. C. Benson

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

British Author

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Indian Statesman

Often associated with visiting religious sites, and it implies a certain reverence or respect.

Religious Significance

Pilgrimage can involve traveling to historic religious locations, not just current active ones.

Historical Spots

Can also be a very personal journey rather than a group event, reflecting individual devotion.

Personal Journey

Can be used to describe non-religious journeys focused on self-improvement or enlightenment.

Figurative Meaning

The word often signifies an inner transformation as much as, or more than, a physical journey.

Inner Transformation

Major life events or transitions can be considered as 'pilgrimages' due to their transformative nature.

Life Events

 divorced I decided to move to New York but I didn't want to just get on a plane and start a new life five hours later and so I did that most American of things I got into my car and took a road trip and I spent 18 days by myself getting to know America now as a Muslim I've been to Mecca on pilgrimage but this was my American pilgrimage and by

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 when he took his pilgrimage to Mecca. Not one to travel on a budget, he brought a caravan stretching as far as the eye could see. Accounts of this journey are mostly based on an oral testimony and differing written records, so it's difficult to determine the exact details.

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 more recently this work that I've been doing in Burma but I feel like a lot of these images are really sort of celebrating the spirit within all of us it's what really bonds us as mankind as we sort of continue this this journey this pilgrimage in life and you know

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 and also the joy of communicating it to others. And that feeling also led me to a pilgrimage of sorts, to go literally to the ends of the earth to see telescopes, detectors, instruments that people are building, or have built, in order to probe the cosmos

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 But he was glad for the solitude it afforded him, and the peace he felt upon returning home was profound. The scholar was determined to maintain this clarity for as long as possible, and resolved to make this pilgrimage another 99 times.

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 which is a kind of return to the beginning all at the same time. We have this experience of the journey, which is in all of our great spiritual traditions, of pilgrimage. But just by actually standing in the ground of your life fully,

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 thousands of people all over the world dress up like the characters, take to the streets, and read the book aloud. And some even make a pilgrimage to Dublin just to visit the places so vividly depicted in Joyce's opus.

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 Our shared pilgrimage across the Okavango Delta each year in our mokoros or dugout canoes -- remembers millenia living in the wild. Ten thousand years ago, our entire world was wilderness.

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 that is extraordinary to see them begin their nightly pilgrimage we scramble to a higher viewpoint above the sinkhole we just quickly run above the sinkhole just to catch the

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 understanding that helped me realize who he was the places that mark mandela's life have become pilgrimage sites where people remember the man who brought them freedom