Quotes About Sacred Places

A small, roadside Shinto shrine on a Japanese island

Here’s what some others have had to say about the power of sacred places…

“Let the site tell you its secrets.”
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

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“If Earth has a mind, the keepers of the sacred places have a very important part to play in aiding the stability and vitality of humanity’s consciousness, as well as the Earth’s and their own.”

James A. Swan, Sacred Places

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“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, a Seeker’s ABC

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Do You Hear Them? Sacred Places…like maybe Monte Alban…Are Calling

Monte Alban Photo credit: Raymond Ostertag

Monte Albán—the sacred ceremonial center of the ancient Zapotecs in central Mexico.

I have been here numerous times with our Days of the Dead tours to Oaxaca, and yet, for me, it never loses its mystique…

Once the holy city of more than 30,000 Zapotecs, Monte Albán (mohn-teh ahl-bahn) is situated on a mountain some 1300 feet above the Oaxaca Valley. Although valley had been occupied since about 2000 BCE, there was a new influx of people between 800 and 500 BCE. This new group, now known as the Zapotecs, began the monumental task of leveling the top of the mountain where they would build Monte Albán.

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