Day 073v: Re-soaking the Sacred … (June 26, 2019)
It was then that I came across the lovely Paroisse de St. Jacques en Saubestre; a lovely Romanesque chapel where I spent more than a few moments in calm of mind and cool of climate …
“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest embodiments of the Earth; they are its truest flags and strongest shields. Indeed, if you would truly know the Earth for what she really is, then you must regularly visit and learn from learn from Her sacred places – the natural ones, yes (like Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Big Island of Hawaii or Rocky Valley on the British coast), and yet also some of those man-made (like Glastonbury’s Tor or Mount Koya in Japan or any number of out-of-the-way chapels and grottos and gardens found the world over). For whenever you happen to enter these places of harmonic calm, you once more are allowed to feel the pulse of the living planet. You feel its breath upon you and you remember that you are a part of that breath. It is in those times that you become One with the underlying Spirit that pervades every corner of the earth’s geologic time and space.” ~ via N. scott Momaday
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