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  • An endless living world

    If there is a heaven, and I am allowed entrance, I will ask for no more than an endless living world to walk through and explore.

    Michael R. Canfield, Field Notes on Science and Nature
    • learning
    • nature
    • religion
    • walking
  • As a kind of gateway

    Historically, Japan's shrines have been built in order to worship the gods who live in the sacred mountains or seas; They don't reside in the shrine itself, but in the space beyond it. This belief that the spirits and deities exist beyond the confines of the shrine, and that the shrine itself acts not as a centre, but as a kind of gateway, is very different to the grand, imposing churches and cathedrals of Christianity.

    The majority of shrines are not found in the mountains or in the middle of the fields, therefore, but at the borders of mountain villages – which is to say, at what is seen as the edge of the mountains. The tori gate, marking the entrance to a shrine, indicates that there are gods on the other side of it.

    Kengo Kuma, My Life as an Architect in Tokyo
    1. ​​An edge is an interface​​
    2. ​​Paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks​​
    • religion
    • edges
  • The neon god they made

    And the people bowed and prayed
    To the neon god they made

    Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence
    • religion
    • energy
  • Everybody worships

    Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

    David Foster Wallace, This is Water
    1. ​​City messages​​
    • religion
  • Dwelling in ritual

    Even a dwelling is a device that generates a distinct pattern of daily activities and their relationships. Some buildings are explicitly built for ritual, but the repetition of any activity, either mundane or religious, tends to ritualize them, and by facilitating this, an architectural structure can turn gradually – sometimes even unnoticeably – into an instrument of ritual.

    Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture
    1. ​​White cloth​​
    • ritual
    • patterns
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  • Who walks beside you?

    Who is the third who walks always beside you?
    When I count, there are only you and I together
    But when I look ahead up the white road
    There is always another

    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    • religion
    • walking
  • Immer wieder

    My attitude toward Alexander’s teachings prior to experiencing the places and spaces realized in his practice was akin to what Alan Watts said about certain teachings in The Bible:

    Sometimes, as St. Paul pointed out, commandments are not given in the expectation that they will be obeyed, but in the expectation that they will reveal something to those who hear them.

    Today, my answer is unequivocal. My interpretive lens: literal. Time and again, across cultures and continents and islands and oceans, in five different places now I’ve examined the evidence, and am persuaded.

    Nicht nur einmal: immer wieder.

    Dan Klyn, Einmal Ist Keinmal
    blog.usejournal.com
    • religion
    • teaching
  • The Mind of the Maker

    A Book by Dorothy Sayers
    en.wikipedia.org

    Looking at man, [the author of Genesis] sees in him something essentially divine, but when we turn back to see what he says about the original upon which the “image” of God was modelled, we find only the single assertion, “God created”. The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

    1. ​​Only in terms of other things​​
    2. ​​I mix it with two in my thought​​
    3. ​​Towards a synthesis of experience​​
    4. ​​And these three are one​​
    5. ​​"The right phrase"​​
    • religion
  • Narcissus and Goldmund

    A Novel by Herman Hesse
    www.goodreads.com
    1. ​​Duality​​
    2. ​​Fear of death​​
    3. ​​Pain and joy​​
    4. ​​Suddenly the letter has a tail​​
    5. ​​All that is beautiful and lovely​​
    • religion
    • love
    • life
  • the speed of God

    An Article by Alan Jacobs
    blog.ayjay.org

    [Andy Crouch] quotes the Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama saying that “the speed of God” is three miles an hour because that was the speed at which Jesus moved through his world. So maybe, and I think this is one of the chief burdens of Andy’s book, what makes the most sense for us is to try whenever possible to move at the speed of God – and in that way refuse the offer of superpowers.

    Of course, this dovetails with a lot of things people have been writing lately about slowness, but what I like about Andy’s book is that it specifies why we can find ourselves responding so warmly to the possibility of slowness. What happens when we seek superpowers, and especially super-speed, is the sacrifice of what I want to call our proper powers – the powers through the exercise of which we (heart-soul-mind-strength) flourish in love.

    1. ​​The brain is wider than the sky​​
    • religion
    • love
    • euphony
    • slowness
  • Proverbs of Hell

    A Poem by William Blake
    poets.org
    1. ​​The productions of time​​
    • religion
    • evil

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