Comments on: On Pilgrims http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tokushima Temple Walk: Next Steps | 近海る(Kin Kairu) http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-6025 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:04:25 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-6025 […] “But something cynical has happened to us on the way to Canterbury Cathedral. Our spiritual journeys have become vacations. We are no longer pilgrims, we are tourists. Everything else feels like an affectation: Self-aggrandizing stories that make entire nations nothing more than a supporting cast for our own first-world problems and neuroticisms,” from This Japanese Life […]

]]> By: owwls http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-5542 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:27:46 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-5542 I don’t usually approve these (or get many) I just thought yours was an important testament to the roach-vision of people who would rather everyone shut up and stop communicating like human beings. I always wonder why people like you are so hell-bent on making people ashamed of being honest and vulnerable. If you aren’t “entertained” by my attempt to communicate something personal, you could try making something, doing something, or being something, instead of being the speck of a turd stuck to the fur of a real thought.

]]> By: C http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-5337 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 03:28:29 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-5337 Your Shit smells all they way back here in America! Just FYI your an ass Hole.

]]> By: Jual Baju Muslimah Modern http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-5132 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:26:36 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-5132 hi…
that’s right … may Hajj pilgrimage is the only one that has persisted, Hajj is not only the traditional Journey to mecca (Mekah), it’s a high level of spiritual journey, and even we believed Hajj will continue until the Day of Judgement
thanks

regards
J. White: i like The Alchemist, (by Paulo Coelho) too

]]> By: Billy http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-4947 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:16:48 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-4947 Well thought-out… After almost ten years in Japan, I can no longer think of my Japan experience and how it relates to my life as just one simple piece of it, as it has become a huge portion of it. I don’t think of my first few years here as a pilgrimage as much as an escape from which it became impossible to escape.

]]> By: J. White http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-4946 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:42:24 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-4946 Here are two books about pilgrimage I love. I think you’ll enjoy them: A Horse and his Boy, C.S. Lewis; The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho.

]]> By: Louise http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-4945 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:20:51 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-4945 If idolatry is a pilgrimage in itself, then I’m your pilgrim because you’re my idol ;)
Another nice entry!

]]> By: Zen http://thisjapaneselife.org/2014/01/29/on-the-expat-as-a-pilgrim/#comment-4943 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:18:44 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=1936#comment-4943 There are those modern day Pilgrims who travel by water…some even to…from Japan.

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