Writing the Heart
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Short Memoir: How Pilgrimage Shows Us the Way Back to True Self
Mar 18, 2020
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Last winter, I traveled to southern India for a pilgrimage to Arunachala, a conical mountain considered by Hindus to be the embodiment of Shiva, the god of destruction and rebirth. The night before the pilgrimage, I dropped onto the mattress in my bamboo hut hoping for a peaceful rest. I...
Short Memoir: How Pilgrimage Shows Us the Way Back to True Self, Part 2
Feb 04, 2020
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Something changed in me that day on Mount Arunachala. I glimpsed something I’d never seen before. At least, not since I was a boy.
It was only a glimpse, so I can’t say for certain what I saw. But during and after my circumambulation, I peered deeper inside myself than I had done...
