Ideally, a human life should be a constant pilgrimage of discovery. The most exciting discoveries happen at the frontiers. When you come to know something new, you come closer to yourself and to the world. Discovery enlarges and refines your sensibility. When you discover something, you transfigure some of the forsakenness of the world.
John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
Amen! Here are some of my thoughts re: the idea and practice of pilgrimage…
