The end is where we start from

I visited an Indian Hindu temple today, spending several  hours there with an Indian friend who spent the time explaining the intricacies and attributes of the temple and the ceremonies.  At one point we sat before a central area before images of Indian sacred figures.  At the close of the ceremony, you walk multiple times around the central chamber, as an act representing the centrality of religion and the sacred to one's life.  As we walked, Eliot's words were called unbidden to mind from Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot.

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

Then, later in the poem,

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.