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Pilgrimage
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I walked away from the world and into the monastery, believing that where prayer begins, lies finally lose their voice.
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― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
― Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
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But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment
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― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
All journeys are inner. All journeys are sacred.
Whether your travels take you around the corn…more
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last active 9 years ago
This group is for books about the Camino de Santiago.
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last active 5 years ago
Pilgrimage UCC Evening Book Club. Meets once a month.
6 members,
last active 13 years ago
A group for all things related to the life and work of this criminally neglected Modernist geniu…more
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last active 2 years ago