By detaching oneself from the routine and familiar surroundings of domestic life, striking out on the Way, and submitting to hardship and uncertainty in a foreign land, the pilgrim is thrown into a state of intense introspection, reflection, and prayer. The pilgrim progresses over a physcial landscape, but it is the spiritual journey that counts. It is the Wayless Way of Meister Eckhart, "where the Sons of God lose themselves and, at the same time, find themselves."
— Nicholas Shrady, Sacred Roads