“My love walked with me – over a high mountain, higher than the mountain I walked over…” Karel Hynek Mácha (Two Songs of Gypsies) Karel Hynek Mácha was a true poet-pilgrim who, during his short life, undertook a number of long walking expeditions across Bohemia and beyond its borders, to Venice. His literary work was particularly inspired by his travels to…
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Jiří Zemánek: On the origin of Pilgrim, the meaning of pilgrimage and the Máchov pilgrimage
“We are not here to control the world. We are here to connect with the greater earthly community.” Thomas Berry In the mid-1990s, when I began to realize that we were in a time of great civilizational crisis and transformation—a time of searching for a new story—I asked myself how we could more deeply integrate our lives, our culture, and our spirituality…