A temple of love
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A temple of love
You feel truly connected to the world and to a sense of home. New ideas come from being in this place. On the deepest level, this zone is a spiritual place. We meet the spiritual world most immediately through our relationships to others.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
Vervaeke clip on Tim Ferris: The church, the temple, and the mosque used to be places where an “ecology of practices” had a home. It was less about socializing, or communicating, but communing. People would mutually conform to set of rituals and words that would transform themselves, enhancing religio, sacredness, and an awareness of the depths of
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Patricia Mou • vol. 49: when picking furniture becomes spiritual
This architectural mode of enclosure and enfolding suggests sanctuary, retreat, and escape. From the narthex entry one is invited to lose oneself in this space that channels the pilgrim into a labyrinth of octagons and circles, inviting a wandering that seems to escape from the driven, goal-oriented ways we inhabit the “outside” world. The pilgrim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
“As for me, I believe that the very nature of existential longing — of longing for a perfect and beautiful world of unconditional love and everlasting life — extinguishes these distinctions between atheists and believers. The longing comes through Yahweh or Allah, Christ or Krishna, no more and no less than it comes through the books and the music;
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