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  • But one thing is clear: atman seeks to realize Brahman, to be united with the Absolute, and it travels in this life on a pilgrimage where it is born and dies, and is born again and dies again, and again, and again, until it manages to shed the sheaths that imprison it here below.†   (source)
  • A lot of uglies had seen the burning message on the night of the escape, or had heard about it, and the nightly pilgrimages out to the ruins slowly increased, until sparklers wavered atop high buildings from midnight until dawn.†   (source)
  • This prostrate pilgrimage was a common occurrence in Poets' Corner, although it was far less holy than it appeared.†   (source)
  • In rural Kentucky, three men threw pieces of a tombstone off a bridge, smashing the windshield of a passing car, killing a teenage girl who was traveling with her family on a religious pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Each night he told himself not to return, but on the next he would take a walk at dusk, his walk would become a pilgrimage, he would feel guilt and shame, he would top the groundswell that buttressed her strawberries and pause before the sweep of her fields.†   (source)
  • /—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan..../These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.'†   (source)
  • With this second misfortune, First Wife began to go on so many pilgrimages to Tsinan, just a half-day's train ride to the south, that Wu Tsing bought her a house near the Thousand Buddha Cliff and Bubbling Springs Bamboo Grove.†   (source)
  • She had known she would make a pilgrimage to see it before the developers closed it up.†   (source)
  • PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning.†   (source)
  • Now he is a veteran of a perilous pilgrimage by children, many of whom come looking for their mothers and travel any way they can.†   (source)
  • After I hung up, I made an anxious pilgrimage to her apartment in the Bowery and saw Gary, her beloved ficus tree, yellow-dead on the fire escape, and knew she'd never come back.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to be a musical pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • In 1848 he made a pilgrimage to Palestine.†   (source)
  • "You have been chosen to return to Hyperion as a member of the Shrike Pilgrimage," continued the voice.†   (source)
  • Every year we spend hundreds of dollars on phone calls and letters, writing, faxing, cajoling, and bribing, trying to get out of the pilgrimage to Mommy's tiny house in Ewing.†   (source)
  • Or fleece visitors during pilgrimage season.†   (source)
  • My mom had been a Civil War historian, and she had pointed them out to me on our countless pilgrimages to every historical site within a day's drive of Gatlin.†   (source)
  • I decided not to take the children, so I could give myself over to the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Pilgrimage†   (source)
  • Carmine's story has been written by his son, who clearly did lots of research, even making the pilgrimage to New York to scour the records of the Children's Aid Society.†   (source)
  • Every autumn we made a pilgrimage to El Puerto where my grandfather and uncles lived.†   (source)
  • By the end of this pilgrimage he was convinced that God exists, and had learned to pierce his cheeks and chest with hatpins and to live practically without eating.†   (source)
  • An English traveler at the beginning of the nineteenth century, referring to the journey by canoe and mule that could last as long as fifty days, had written: "This is one of the most miserable and uncomfortable pilgrimages that a human being can make."†   (source)
  • "I will become very rich there," said Yves, "and when I come back, I will take you on a pilgrimage to Rome."†   (source)
  • We were making a pilgrimage across the fourth great ice field to see one of the more celebrated crystal cities.†   (source)
  • Later she lit incense, rang the bell, and vowed that she'd make pilgrimages to the shrines at Tirupati and Velankani if they released Ghosh alive.†   (source)
  • Are you suggesting some sort of pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • I also should get out of here and make my pilgrimage to Brimmler's Bridge, but I will wait for him, keep my word, honor my father.†   (source)
  • This visit, this pilgrimage, made comprehensible, finally, the traces that remained and would always remain, like a needle.†   (source)
  • I had twice made the monthly pilgrimage out to the warehouse to collect my eight packets of laundry soap powder from the unsmiling inmate in charge of issuing them.†   (source)
  • Many of the Empire's leadersgenerals, the Blood Shrike, even the Emperor—make a yearly pilgrimage to the Augurs' mountain lair, seeking counsel on matters of state.†   (source)
  • Why did the family have to drag Mahtob and me along on their ridiculous pilgrimages?†   (source)
  • Farmers and maids, cooks and handymen, carpenters and all the children in town, made regular pilgrimages to the Store.†   (source)
  • The chaplain's pilgrimage to Wintergreen had proved abortive; another shrine was empty.†   (source)
  • For her twenty-third birthday, Christa and their mother planned to make a pilgrimage from Minnesota to the cornfield in Deyersville, Iowa, where the movie that Christa was drawn to watch again and again, Field of Dreams, had been filmed.†   (source)
  • The quest ended, symbolically, with my own pilgrimage to Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The perpetual round of feasting became only another burden of his "pilgrimage."†   (source)
  • My in-laws agreed to this pilgrimage—they would do everything they could to ensure a male heir—on condition that I spend the night at an inn and not overtax myself My husband's family sent a palanquin to pick me up.†   (source)
  • Everyone was "on a pilgrimage."†   (source)
  • It was their duty to draw nigh to him, to enjoy the: sight of him, and from time to time to make pilgrimages to him.†   (source)
  • It was turning into nothing less than a final, desperate pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him.†   (source)
  • The pilgrimage route to Saint Patrick's mountain.†   (source)
  • There would be an endless pilgrimage of Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be.†   (source)
  • So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides —and try to understand why he must do so.†   (source)
  • Well, as I said, the pilgrim—this simple peasant—started the whole pilgrimage to find out what it means in the Bible when it says you're supposed to pray without ceasing.†   (source)
  • But I think it won't be any kind of pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Is this the pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • Among them was a rhapsodic ode to Thomas Wolfe commemorating a pilgrimage I had made to Asheville the previous summer.†   (source)
  • This pilgrimage can be traced in the letters of two Ohio soldiers, one a nineteen-yearold private and the other a thirty-four-year-old colonel.†   (source)
  • "And probably well worth the pilgrimage," I said, standing, "if only I could find an interpreter ...I thank you for the minute I took and the others you gave me.†   (source)
  • I don't think many people know that earlier this year he and his entire government made a pilgrimage to the village of that woman of Africa.†   (source)
  • Then, at one time, monks came by on a pilgrimage, followers of Gotama, the Buddha, who were asking to be ferried across the river, and by them the ferrymen were told that they were most hurriedly walking back to their great teacher, for the news had spread the exalted one was deadly sick and would soon die his last human death, in order to become one with the salvation.†   (source)
  • In the spring when the old homes were opened for pilgrimages, he was invited to wear his uniform and sit in some conspicuous spot and lend atmosphere to the scene.†   (source)
  • He was not the only one who had made the pilgrimage to see what the original flotilla was like, that had been taken from Burr.†   (source)
  • It was two weeks before the start of the pilgrimage, when hundreds of thousands of Orsians and tourists would pass through the city.†   (source)
  • You could buy them, I knew, from vendors in the plaza in front of the Fore-Temple water, during pilgrimage season.†   (source)
  • During pilgrimage Anaander Mianaai's presence would be highly visible, an opportunity to impress a high number of the worshippers of Ikkt.†   (source)
  • Such odd chances could—and did—send Radchaai on pilgrimages, motivate them to worship particular gods, change entrenched habits.†   (source)
  • Making reports on the pilgrimage as they expected?†   (source)
  • It wasn't my idea to go on the pilgrimage to Higuey.†   (source)
  • Rosslyn had now become a pilgrimage site for mystery seekers.†   (source)
  • I began to wonder why Mama had suggested this pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • The purpose of the pilgrimage has been destroyed already.†   (source)
  • Then she said, "He plans to go with the Templar ship on the pilgrimage then."†   (source)
  • Now I knew why she had come on her pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • They have a vested interest in our pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • You sure you women are going on a pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • We're starting our pilgrimage with lies," Minerva laughed.†   (source)
  • Did I say why I wanted to go on the...Shrike Pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • During pilgrimage season this space would be jammed tight with worshippers.†   (source)
  • And a holy card from our pilgrimage to Higley the time Patria claimed to have heard a voice.†   (source)
  • Occasionally during pilgrimage season, almost never otherwise.†   (source)
  • CEO Gladstone warned me when I was chosen for the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • During that pilgrimage thing it's nearly impossible.†   (source)
  • So when you offered to go on the Shrike Pilgrimage we agreed.†   (source)
  • You are all ready to leave for the pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • Only the occasional Shrike Pilgrimage sent people to that region.†   (source)
  • Meina Gladstone said that no future pilgrimage flights to Hyperion would be allowed.†   (source)
  • There will be no pilgrimage unless the Senate decides it is in our interest.†   (source)
  • priests or whoever are behind this pilgrimage have seen to it that we've gotten this far.†   (source)
  • M. Keats had expressed an interest in joining our holiest pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • "The pilgrimage always begins from the capital," he said.†   (source)
  • The pilgrimage is a loser's game anyway.†   (source)
  • "Now do you want to stay here and go on this useless pilgrimage?" asked Theo.†   (source)
  • "This pilgrimage was over before you got here," said Governor-General Theo Lane.†   (source)
  • Then why did you volunteer to go on this pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • It was upon my return from one of these nocturnal pilgrimages that I found an intruder in my study.†   (source)
  • We have our own purposes and pilgrimages on Hyperion.†   (source)
  • Rich and poor alike made a pilgrimage to Immortal Heart.†   (source)
  • This is the Umrah, like the lesser pilgrimage, for people who can't come during the big one.†   (source)
  • He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too.†   (source)
  • You said you would not make your pilgrimage to Brimmler's Bridge until you saw me again.†   (source)
  • Don't forget about the pilgrimage, okay?†   (source)
  • "So, anyway, he begins his pilgrimage to find a teacher," he said.†   (source)
  • When I read in the paper that it was an unpublicized pilgrimage, I thought of it as just that.†   (source)
  • But I will again start on my pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • I said, "They caught me with that pilgrimage to the mother's village.†   (source)
  • Govinda spoke: "You're saying: you're on a pilgrimage, and I believe in you.†   (source)
  • But few would go on a pilgrimage in such clothes, few in such shoes, few with such hair.†   (source)
  • Word of Galileo's brotherhood started to spread in the 1630s, and scientists from around the world made secret pilgrimages to Rome hoping to join the Illuminati ....eager for a chance to look through Galileo's telescope and hear the master's ideas.†   (source)
  • So in honor of my dad's pilgrimage into the world the rest of us inhabited every day, Amma cooked up a storm.†   (source)
  • No battle, no crucifixion, no pilgrimage, no mystical vision ....nothing in the shrine's 2,000-year history could possibly match the scope and drama of this very moment.†   (source)
  • First Wife, her daughters ....gone on a pilgrimage to another Buddhist temple ....Last week, a cousin's uncle, just a little crazy, came to visit, turned out not to be a cousin, not an uncle, who knows who he was...†   (source)
  • Larry's mother, Mitzy Lish, had honey-colored, slightly sticky-looking hair—it was coiffed in a bouffant style—and her complexion was much improved by a suntan; in the winter months, when she'd not just returned from her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica, her skin turned a shade sallow.†   (source)
  • In exchange for his help, they make promises: to never drink another drop of alcohol, to make a difficult pilgrimage someday, to serve God forever.†   (source)
  • If Owen had told me about his dream, I might have found the hymn especially ominous; but as it was, it was simply familiar—a frequent choice, probably be cause it was victorious in tone, and squarely in that category of "pilgrimage and conflict," which is often so inspiring to young men.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • But she maintained the Fifth Avenue apartment with a vengeance; and included in her alimony was the expense of her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica—always at a time in the winter when her complexion had become intolerable to her—and a summer rental in the Hamptons (because not even Fifth Avenue was any fun in July and August).†   (source)
  • Maybe Lidia will be my best friend now She is not coming back until after the Virgencita's feast day on the 21st as her whole family is making the pilgrimage to Higuey.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Skaaiat and her troops assisted us during pilgrimage season, so she was nearly as well-known in Ors as Lieutenant Awn was.†   (source)
  • There were other holy sites, but if an Orsian said "pilgrimage" she meant the annual pilgrimage to this place.†   (source)
  • The city's small size was to some degree deceptive—during pilgrimage season hundreds of thousands of visitors streamed through the plaza in front of the temple, camped on the slabs of abandoned streets.†   (source)
  • It was, in fact, mildly surprising she hadn't visited Ors sooner—small as it was, far as Orsians had fallen from their former glory, still the yearly pilgrimage made Ors a moderately important place.†   (source)
  • "At any rate," continued the bishop, "we must have your answer about the pilgrimage before the week is out.†   (source)
  • Second, will you tell us what you plan to petition the Shrike for...or this Moneta...when you meet them on the pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • This pilgrimage may be our last chance.†   (source)
  • The annual passage of the Shrike Pilgrimage was a minor irritation, a distant caravan crossing the desert to the Time Tombs.†   (source)
  • It is time to admit that each of us has brought on this pilgrimage something which he or she hopes will alter the inevitable outcome when the moment arrives that we must face the Lord of Pain.†   (source)
  • Why the pilgrimage to the Shrike?†   (source)
  • We have reason to believe that this may be the last Church-sponsored pilgrimage and we have chartered the Templar craft to allow as many of the faithful as possible to make the trip.†   (source)
  • Seven set out on the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • I have to go on this pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • This is the Shrike Pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Abandon this stupid pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Later, when the fatline call to pilgrimage came from Gladstone herself, I knew the role the Ousters had planned for me in these final days: the Ousters, or the Core, or Gladstone and her machinations.†   (source)
  • Sol took Rachel with him as he traveled the Web-no longer caring about the newsteeps-petitioning the Shrike Church for pilgrimage rights, lobbying the Senate for a visa and access to forbidden areas on Hyperion, and visiting any research institute or clinic which might offer a cure.†   (source)
  • None of us admits to subscribing to the Shrike cult dogma, yet the elders of that perceptive group have chosen us over many millions of the petitioning faithful to visit the Time Tombs...and their fierce god...in what may be the last such pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • "Colonel," Sol Weintraub said formally, "the weather is nice, none of us seems to have anything pressing to do in the next hour or so, and we would be obliged if you would share the tale of what brings you to Hyperion on the Shrike's last pilgrimage."†   (source)
  • "You have been chosen to join the pilgrimage to the Shrike," said the image of the old CEO whom the press loved to compare to Lincoln or Churchill or Alvarez-Temp or whatever other pre-Hegira legend was in historical vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • About this final pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • The Shrike Temple had renewed the Shrike pilgrimages by this time, and on my trips I would use their elaborate avenue to death in reverse-the walk to Chronos Keep, the aerial tram across the Bridle Range, the windwagons, and the Charon barge down the Hoolie.†   (source)
  • The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.†   (source)
  • The halls at Evergreen were packed with other relatives now, making pilgrimages; at one point when I passed the room next door, the man with the tubes and machines had a crowd around his bed, all talking softly and huddled together.†   (source)
  • The pilgrimage affected me deeply, bringing me closer than ever to really believing in Moody's religion.†   (source)
  • For a few days I set aside my comfortable life—my business concerns, my life in Rye, New York—and made a pilgrimage to the other side of the world, to a primitive flyspeck island in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • During the Cultural Revolution, the zealous Red Guard burned even more texts, then banned the local women from attending religious festivals or making the annual pilgrimage to the Temple of Gupo.†   (source)
  • Matthiessen anointed his account of their long walk through high mountains with a sense of pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Tell your neighbors and your children that this is holy ground, ....All England should come in pilgrimage to this hill once a year.†   (source)
  • She followed her on her pilgrimages to hospitals and almshouses, where Clara tried to track down her needy flock; she even learned, using four-ply wool and enormous needles, to knit the sweaters her Uncle Jaime gave away after he had worn them once, just so she could see her grandmother's toothless smile while she squinted at the stitches.†   (source)
  • He didn't think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he Starts on his pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Before the birth of Mehdi, Reza and Essey had made a nasr, promising to undergo the pilgrimage if Allah granted them a son.†   (source)
  • The pain and anger of remembering what had happened to Iggy, and of the pilgrimage Doc had made himself make to Iggy's parents after the war, to give them reassurances.†   (source)
  • Every Muslim of means is expected to perform the Haj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in his life.†   (source)
  • Adams again succeeded with the Dutch bankers, but only after one of the most horrendous episodes in all his earthly pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Reza and Essey planned a pilgrimage to the holy masjed at Meshed, where Ameh Bozorg had journeyed in search of a miracle cure.†   (source)
  • Leaving Spain, Adams regretted only that he had had no time for a detour to see the famous pilgrimage cathedral of Santiago de Compestela, and that he had to part with his mule, "as he was an excellent animal and had served me well."†   (source)
  • He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it.†   (source)
  • I truly wanted to make the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.†   (source)
  • Surely my desire to go on the pilgrimage would reassure him of my growing devotion to his way of life.†   (source)
  • She explained that she was married to an Iranian man from Meshed, the same city where Ameh Bozorg was now on her pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Moody agreed readily to the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • First, I truly believed Amahl was the answer to all my prayers, both Christian and Islamic, to my nasr, to my request to Imam Mehdi, to my pilgrimage to Meshed.†   (source)
  • Then, giving all the credit to Allah, she rose from her pallet and announced that she would make an immediate pilgrimage to the holy city of Meshed in the northeastern portion of the country, where there was an especially venerated masjed, known for its healing powers.†   (source)
  • Still I refused, growing more wary and confused, remembering tricks she had played on me in the past, especially at Quin when she had ordered me to sit and later complained that I refused to complete my pilgrimage at the tomb of the holy Moslem martyr.†   (source)
  • Even the thought of his having a stroke right in front of one of the Pilgrimage houses during Pilgrimage Week makes them only sigh, as if to say it's nobody's fault but his own if he wants to be so insultingly and precariously well-preserved.†   (source)
  • Shrines had been set up—and were being set up—in various places connected with the President's mother, and pilgrimages to these places had been decreed for certain days.†   (source)
  • You're on a pilgrimage," said Govinda.†   (source)
  • Once, even a follower of Buddha, travelling on foot, has been my teacher; he sat with me when I had fallen asleep in the forest, on the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • On one of these days, when so many went on a pilgrimage to the dying Buddha, Kamala also went to him, who used to be the most beautiful of the courtesans.†   (source)
  • He did not comprehend why he had to to go on this exhausting and sad pilgrimage with his mother, to an unknown place, to a stranger, who was holy and about to die.†   (source)
  • And so it is: I'm on a pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • She thought about her pilgrimage to Gotama, which wanted to take, in order to see the face of the perfected one, to breathe his peace, and she thought that she had now found him in his place, and that it was good, just as good, as if she had seen the other one.†   (source)
  • It was not long, until a new flock of monks came along on their pilgrimage, and another one, and the monks as well as most of the other travellers and people walking through the land spoke of nothing else than of Gotama and his impending death.†   (source)
  • I said: I'm on a pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • I, oh sir, am a follower of the exalted Gotama, the Buddha, the Sakyamuni, and have been on a pilgrimage together with several of us on this path, when I saw you lying and sleeping in a place where it is dangerous to sleep.†   (source)
  • I'm on a pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Once, Samanas had travelled through Siddhartha's town, ascetics on a pilgrimage, three skinny, withered men, neither old nor young, with dusty and bloody shoulders, almost naked, scorched by the sun, surrounded by loneliness, strangers and enemies to the world, strangers and lank jackals in the realm of humans.†   (source)
  • GOVINDA Together with other monks, Govinda used to spend the time of rest between pilgrimages in the pleasure-grove, which the courtesan Kamala had given to the followers of Gotama for a gift.†   (source)
  • They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle.†   (source)
  • They've been on a pilgrimage to Rome, and now they're going down to Biarritz and Lourdes†   (source)
  • He was probably a very famous guy by this time and the doctors were beginning to make pilgrimages.†   (source)
  • I wished I had one that was more evident, and that I could quit this pilgrimage of mine.†   (source)
  • Don't force me to fight for my life, but let me make a pilgrimage for Gareth's sake.†   (source)
  • In good time no doubt they would come to discuss the reason for this pilgrimage safely at an end.†   (source)
  • Smokestacks across the dark river had begun their pilgrimage into night.†   (source)
  • Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • He has just been on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and has been much edified.†   (source)
  • Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage?†   (source)
  • Many couples, indeed, and many families, looked like people out for a casual stroll, no more than that; in reality most of them were making sentimental pilgrimages to places where they had gone to school with suffering.†   (source)
  • He has discovered that the one-fold of the body is not inhabited by a one-fold of the soul, and that at best he is only at the beginning of a long pilgrimage towards this ideal harmony.†   (source)
  • She appeared seldom in the book; she was older than the eldest of them by nine years and had married and left home while they were schoolboys; between her and them stood two other sisters; after the birth of the third daughter there had been pilgrimages and pious benefactions in request for a son, for theirs was a wide property and an ancient name; male heirs had come late and, when they came, in a profusion which at the time seemed to promise continuity to the line which, in the tragic event, ended abruptly with them.†   (source)
  • A shrine was built to contain this miraculous portrait, which since that day has been the goal of countless pilgrimages and has performed many miracles.†   (source)
  • The railroad had carried the remains of Johnston's army from North Carolina to Atlanta and dumped them there, and from Atlanta they began their pilgrimages afoot.†   (source)
  • And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage.†   (source)
  • And then his pilgrimage was over, and he went to sit on the doorstep where the shade was lately fallen.†   (source)
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