#sacred places

[arc-hus]

Wanjing Garden Chapel, Nanjing - AZL Architects

http://www.azlarchitects.com

[retroreverbs]

[zoeflake]

Absolution [Holy places are dark places [...] -C. S. Lewis] ©Lunaladee

[earthjournalbyawildrose]

sacrēd stōnēs .:. .:. .:.

website | source via @earthjournalbyawildrose

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

N. Scott Momaday

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[SACRED PLACES]

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“I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but seldom of how the places love us back, of what they give us. They give us community, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our own lives to remain connected and coherent. The give us an expansive scale in which our troubles are set into context, in which the largeness of the world is a balm to loss, trouble, and ugliness. And distant places give us refuge in territories where our own histories aren't so deeply entrenched and we can imagine other stories, other selves, or just drink up quiet and respite.”

― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

[gravity-rainbow]

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

Wendell Berry

[protoslacker]

WTOP News. National Cathedral installs stained glass windows with racial justice message

With prayers, poetry, hymns and history, the Washington National Cathedral dedicated two new racial justice-themed stained glass windows Saturday. The windows replaced two others that were removed in 2017 and paid tribute to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Each of those windows included depictions of the confederate battle flag.

Here's a report at NPR about the removal of the Confederate windows which were installed in 1953.

[naturalwomannaturalman]

Ancient stones.

[wanderingflier]

Sakatsura Isosaki Shrine（酒列磯前神社）. Shrines in Ibaraki, Japan.

Beyond the tree-covered approach road.

Very beautiful shrine near the sea. Come and see.

August 2023

[calamitygrrrl]

[castilestateofmind]

“Life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony, for the cosmogony is the paradigmatic model for all creation”.

- Mircea Eliade.

[frenchwitchdiary]

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Devil’s Tower, Eastern Wyoming