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"And by the happie blisfull way More peacefull Pilgrims I shall see, That have shooke off their gownes of clay, And goe appareld fresh like mee."
"We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further; it may be Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow Across that angry or that glimmering sea,"
"Even pilgrims' feet sweat. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)"
"Conversion: this is the word that most specifically expresses the meaning of pilgrimage. (René Laurentin)"
"It is curiosity that shapes the pilgrim no less than devotion. (Abraham Cowley)"
"The pilgrims, who love the land that brings them - and this for the sole fact that it brings them towards that foreign country that they love more than anything else - otherwise they would not be on their way. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)"
"True pilgrims are those who leave to leave. (First Mazzolari)"
"Does the pilgrimage have value if the road led the pilgrim to a different destination? (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)"
"Pilgrimage liberates the spiritual dimension in each person and allows him to recognize his vocation as a child of God. (Jacques Jean Joseph Jules Perrier)"
"The true pilgrim walks the path with nothing, lives on offerings, depends only on the generosity of others and brings with him everything he possesses. The pilgrim is poor and must suffer. (The Road to Santiago)"
"While the holidays indicate that life is on a journey towards God, the processions and pilgrimages take us out of the usual rhythm, they make us understand that we are not tied to the normal conditions of existence but that we have spaces of freedom, that we can consecrate the our life to God, we can direct it to Him, just as a pilgrimage is directed to its end. (Carlo Maria Martini)"
"Pilgrim, on your journey | you could go far, | because, pilgrim, it is a long journey | the one to find out who you are... (Enya)"
"By the grace of God I am a man and a Christian, by actions a great sinner, by vocation a pilgrim of the most miserable kind, wandering from place to place. My earthly possessions are a pouch on my back with a little dry bread and, in the inside pocket of my shirt, the Holy Bible. Nothing else. (Tales of a Russian Pilgrim)"
"Poets, painters and pilgrims are soothsayers in what they say and do. (Italian proverb)"
"Red evening and black morning cheer up the pilgrim. (Tuscan proverb)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.