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Summary: The Art of Pilgrimage
Review: Phil Cousineau challenges the reader to think of each trip that you take as a pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is a state of mind... Pilgrimage is an art form... A Pilgrimage can turn an ordinary trip into a life-changing experience. I highly recommend that you consider reading this book before your next vacation. It will add a new spin onto your journey!
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Summary: The Art of Pilgrimage
Review: Phil Cousineau challenges the reader to think of each trip that you take as a pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is a state of mind... Pilgrimage is an art form... A Pilgrimage can turn an ordinary trip into a life-changing experience. I highly recommend that you consider reading this book before your next vacation. It will add a new spin onto your journey!
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Summary: One for my get-away kit
Review: Phil Cousineau could have had an ordinary life. Or perhaps that would NEVER have been possible, because he is attuned to the nature of journey. I admit I had not been able to think of travel as a sacred activity, because it is so arduous. "The Art of Pilgrimage" is Phil's guide to finding the sacred in all that hard work itself. Pilgrimage is not easy by its nature, and those who try to ignore the tough journey by focusing on an all-important goal will find the journey even more tedious and the pleasure of the goal over-blown or elusive. Phil's stories are authentic and humble. His illuminations of the way of sacred travel are utterly attainable. I left this book with the hopeful thought that what he offers, I can pursue. This is refreshing when compared with so-called "how-tos" that require one to BE the author. A seeker can advance through appropriation of the gifts offered in this volume.
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Summary: Travel is turned into a special sacred or soulful experience
Review: Phil Cousineau has written a very special book that transforms what might be otherwise an ordinary trip into a soulful and profound journey. There are many fantastic personal and anecdotal examples for the traveller contained in the book. Cousineau is as good at this as Bruce Chatwin in his own way. This is a memorable book and you won't want to put it down. It is a great gift to anyone going on a special trip and it need not be a pilgrimage before the trip, but it very well could turn into one once you have read this wonderful book.
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Summary: Read this book before you go!
Review: The Art of Pilgrimage isn't just for the "spiritual traveler." It's for anyone who wants to do more than visit a shopping mall. Even business travelers can use this book--they'll be inspired to make even short jaunts meaningful by taking a half day off to visit someplace special, and experiencing it with attention and purpose. Cousineau stresses that every trip--whether to The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, your ancestral village in Ireland, or the magnificent temples in Ankor Wat in Cambodia--can be sacred and soulful if the traveler's heart and imagination are open to experiencing it. With chapters that cover the cycle of the journey, "the longing," "the call," "departure," the pilgrim's way," "the labyrinth," "arrival," and significantly "bringing back the boon," Cousineau's book is the ultimate pep talk for getting ready for, and experiencing what will surely become an unforgettable soulful adventure. With wonderful photographs and illustrations, this makes a great gift for anyone who loves travel. Anyone going anywhere should buy this book first!
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Summary: Read this book before you go!
Review: The Art of Pilgrimage isn't just for the "spiritual traveler." It's for anyone who wants to do more than visit a shopping mall. Even business travelers can use this book--they'll be inspired to make even short jaunts meaningful by taking a half day off to visit someplace special, and experiencing it with attention and purpose. Cousineau stresses that every trip--whether to The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, your ancestral village in Ireland, or the magnificent temples in Ankor Wat in Cambodia--can be sacred and soulful if the traveler's heart and imagination are open to experiencing it. With chapters that cover the cycle of the journey, "the longing," "the call," "departure," the pilgrim's way," "the labyrinth," "arrival," and significantly "bringing back the boon," Cousineau's book is the ultimate pep talk for getting ready for, and experiencing what will surely become an unforgettable soulful adventure. With wonderful photographs and illustrations, this makes a great gift for anyone who loves travel. Anyone going anywhere should buy this book first!
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Summary: A trip on words
Review: The books gets caught up in its verbosity and long windedness
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Summary: A rare and beautiful book that speaks to the heart
Review: The simple and straight forward writing style combined with liberal use of quotes and tales of travelers gone before make for a majestic and moving tribute to the wanderer in us all.
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Summary: I enjoyed this book, but...
Review: there were a few glaring factual errors about some of the places mentioned which makes me wonder how well he really observed.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book. It is a guide for your soul.
Review: This is one of those books that has the power to change your life. It is a guide to feeding your soul. The author gives us the motivations for taking a pilgrimage-the traveler as student, travel simply for travel's sake, to discover the answers you are seeking, to quench a longing for the unknown, the enticement of traveling to a destination leaving behind your name & past, and many more. The idea that travel can restore a sense of passion and wonder is something of great interest to me. I am stuck in the daily grind of seeing the same scenery and people and doing the same work everyday. My spirit hungers for meaning, beauty, and adventure. This book is the ultimate guide for unconventional travel even if your traveling somewhere conventional. It shows us how to observe and listen in a way that opens up a whole new world to explore. I have enjoyed reading this book and consider author Phil Cousineau a kindred spirit.
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