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Phil Cousineau (Columbia, South Carolina, 26 November 1952) is an American author, lecturer, independent scholar, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

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Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

Alert, Finding Yourself, Journey, Mean, Remote, Sacred

That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.

Calling, Looking, May, Seek

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

Climate, Heart, Home, Seekers, Travel

Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

Atonement, Healing, Moving, Oppressor, Pain, Reconciliation

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

Answers, Home, Seekers, Travel

Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

Expect, Gods, Grace, Inspiration, Other Worlds

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Lies, Lying, Myth, Myths, Tell, Telling The Truth

But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey.

Believe, Gimmicks, Journey, Reimagine, Waiting

The mythic is everywhere.

Mythic, Everywhere

But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire. . . there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

Burning, Change, Dark, Fire, Gone, Light

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

Heart, History, Markets, Moving, Practice, Small

I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.

Believe, Fide, Finding, Journey, Powerful, Prepartion

What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel. . . is the way we spend our lives.

Each Day, Lives, Traveler, Way

Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?

Challenges, Heat, Innovative, Page, Pages, Take

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

Grandfather, Path, Stone, Stones, Used

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Epiphanies, Epiphany, Everyday, Life, Ordinary

Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.

Heart, Hearts, Ignite, Light

Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

Opportunity, Self, Sports, Trips, World

Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

Creativity, Journey, Round, Soul, Turning

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

Believe, Believes, Everything, Heart, Poetic, Poetry

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