INSPIRATION FOR YOUR INNER JOURNEY

Pilgrimage Resources

Wanderlust
By Rebecca Solnit

This volume provides a history of walking, exploring the relationship between thinking and walking and between walking and culture. The author argues for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. (Goodreads)

Reflections on Pilgrimage and Hikoi
By Allan Davidson and Adrienne Puckey

These two different reflections were written by Alan and Adrienne in preparation for a significant pilgrimage from Vaughan Park in Auckland to Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands in December 2018.

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Further Reading

  • THE SALT PATH

    By Raynor Winn

    “An astonishing narrative about two people dragging themselves from the depths of despair along some of the most dramatic coastal landscapes …. looking for a solution to their problems and ultimately finding themselves.” Independent

  • WALKING IN WONDER

    John O’Donohue

    This is a collection of thoughts which explore themes of wonder in the landscape. “John’s voice in many forms continues to walk with humans through despair and illness and healing and renewal.”

  • Shifting Grounds

    Lucy Mackintosh

    “Lucy approaches landscapes as an archive as she delves deeply into a number of specific places in Tāmaki Makaurau, allowing us to understand histories that have not been written into books or inscribed upon memorials.”

  • Fragments from a Contested Past

    BWB Text

    Five researchers, Joanna Kidman, Vincent O’Malley, Liana Macdonald, Tom Roa and Kezia Wallis collectively reflect on and explore remembrance, denial and New Zealand history.

 

“On pilgrimage, what seemed to be good might be bad; what seemed to be bad, good. One didn’t know; one had to wait. The waiting to see how it would turn out was what made pilgriming different from ordinary life, I began to see. If I wanted, I could take that kind of waiting home and have my daily life become a kind of pilgrimage.”

Victoria Sweet, God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart.