This determined human pattern of pilgrimage points, as we have come to believe, to the basic human need to make a connection with something outside themselves, some holiness or value which helps ground the pilgrim in a new being, in a new lease on life, in something which gives meaning and direction and which is frequently experienced as healing.
— Jean Dalby, Wallace Clift, The Archetype of Pilgrimage by Jean Dalby Clift, Wallace B. Clift