“Wholeness and integrity depend upon the place’s underlying, invisible ecology. Spirit-of-place is influenced by human thought and action: how places are used revered, un-valued or exploited affects them… Listening to a place’s past will tell us where it wants to go in the future: what it needs, what it can’t accept, what would be sustainable and what wouldn’t.”
~ Christopher Day, Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
“Everything is loved not for its own sake,
but because Self lives in it.”
~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Amidst a whirlwind of seeming insanity, when it’s easy to believe that divisiveness prevails, we can gather back our focus and energy, walk the Beauty Way, and lovingly tend and deeply appreciate what’s right where we are.
Big Love,
Related musings:
- Desire Paths and Ancestral Byways
- The Hidden Meaning Behind Neglect and Vandalism
- The Beauty Way of Relating
Featured image credit: Zen Garden in the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. Photo by Jamie S. Walters, Sophia’s Children.
August 26, 2017 at 8:56 pm
I love this Jamie, I think recognising the spirit of place is so important.
August 26, 2017 at 9:08 pm
It really shifts things … shifts our perception and experience, doesn’t it? That’s my sense and experience, anyway. Spirit of Place is so often neglected, in this culture anyway, but perhaps more and more places. So it’s heartening that there’s the movement, too, back into remembrance. Thanks, as always, for stopping by, Andrea.
p.s. I enjoyed the Return of the Courtesan piece and shared it via social media circles.
August 26, 2017 at 9:12 pm
It does Jamie, I envy those cultures that have a strong belief in it. Thanks for supporting Victoria’s post.