Sentences with phrase «idea of a pilgrimage»

But the idea of pilgrimage reminds us it is a biblical concept that geographic space — just a car ride or plane flight away — can be imbued with God's presence, which is why God can tell the Israelites essentially, «Meet me in Jerusalem in spring.»

I love the idea of a pilgrimage site slowly developing its facilities for people to visit, to live there for a while and to leave their mark — little churches, walls of votive offerings, town squares, guest houses, fountains, murals, presumably coffee shops.

From road signs and electricity pylons, to underpasses and empty stretches of desert and sky, the narrative of the American highway evokes ideas of pilgrimage and discovery, and inevitably raises questions about where we are headed.

Not exact matches

The idea is simple: avoid getting worn down by a European or American winter and build your venture from «Silicon Bali,» as Ubud — mostly known as a pilgrimage place for wellness seekers since Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a part of Eat Pray Love there — has been dubbed.

Foster's book explains the biblical basis behind this idea, and recounts many of his own pilgrimage stories.

As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

The last years of Evelyn Underhill's spiritual pilgrimage thus found her, a pacifist, although she never worked her ideas into a finely spun philosophy.

Returning to Utopia is the idea that through some method of leaving society (time travel, magic, pilgrimage, peaceful revolution, changing laws, etc), the world can once again become the way it should be.

«The idea of sojourn and pilgrimage and embarking on a travel adventure or a quest of sorts has always been what's kind of motivated my love for travel,» he explains.

Not surprisingly, there are still worthy elements at work here, from the casting to the idea of a religious awakening and what amount to pilgrimages to Miracle in the wake of the departures.

Along the journey to the left, ideas of American expansion are quickly derailed by Gareth Moore's Map (from Uncertain Pilgrimage)(2006 — 2009).

According to the press release for the show, he studied declassified military operations reports gathered from the Office of Military History, and the information they contained crystallized his idea of undertaking a painting pilgrimage.

On Saturday 24 September the Nunnery Gallery invites you to an artist - led pilgrimage to draw water from an ancient well in Valentine's Park, Ilford, paying homage to the idea of a journey that brings people together and to explore the hidden streets of east London.