Seeker, glad my outlook is relevant to yours.
I found an interesting, if not a bit esoteric, website on Heidegger's Dasein (Being-there)... maybe some of you would like to look... I have always been interested in the idea but didn't have the proper philosophical training to delve very deeply:
http://members.tripod.com/~jonmills/Dasein.htm
I liked this bit from that website: "For Heidegger, authenticity is a uniquely temporal structure and a process of unfolding possibility. It is a state of being that is active, congruent, contemplative, dynamic, and teleological--an agency burgeoning with quiescent potentiality (Guignon, 1984, 1993). As such, authenticity is the process of becoming one's possibilities; and by nature it is idiosyncratic and uniquely subjective."
Becoming one's possibilities... as part of the pilgrimage... or perhaps, that is the end goal of the pilgrimage?