What
is Pilgrimage?
Welcome to Illuminated Journeys: where we facilitate people on pilgrimage.
What
is Pilgrimage?
"The object of pilgrimage is not rest and relaxation- to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life. Nothing matters now but this adventure.
Travel brings a special kind of wisdom if one is open to it. At home or abroad, things of the world pull us toward them with such gravitational force that, if we are not alert our entire lives, we can be sucked into their outwardness. Attentive travel helps us to see this, because the continually changing outward scene helps us to see through the world's pretensions."
Phil Cousineau
The Art of Pilgrimage
Our challenge as leaders is to honor your process while offering you the opportunity to be still in places that can touch your depths. Our delight is to be like the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales sharing in stories, songs, and adventures as we travel together.
Sitting here at Brigid's well I'm brought in a surprising way to the fact that I need healing. Leading a pilgrimage is an act of trying to listen to the heart of each person as well as my own heart. In this moment I am deeply aware of the quiet healing water that awaits us.
- Robert