Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
As the heart in the midst of the body, so is Jerusalem situated in the midst of our inhabited earth
The Vatican takes your breath away.
Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
