Sacred Places
I was out for a walk yesterday morning, as I turned the corner of my street I passed a church. Being Sunday, the door was open, inviting anyone who passed by to enter. I thought to myself, how good it feels inside a church. There is a certain peace that can be found in a church, synagogue, mosque or any place of worship. The energy in places of worship is different. People are affected by this energy when they enter the door of a place of worship, there behavior and thoughts often change. People manifest into something other than their accepted norm when they believe they are in a sacred place. Their personal energy shifts because they believe they are in a place which brings them closer to source and the environment lends to this feeling of calm and deep reflection. There is a sense of connection with source when we enter a designated holy place.
As I considered all this in the few seconds it took me to pass by the church, I had to ask why? Why is this place, a church any more sacred than any where else? The simple answer is that a church, synagogue, mosque or any place else which has been deemed a sacred place is no more sacred that any place else in this universe. These places are all designated as “sacred” by man. The local super market parking lot is just as sacred if we say it is. We, our spirits are what make a place sacred. Truth is anywhere you are is sacred, because you emanate from source. You are as close to source as you choose to be, weather that be in a place of worship or standing in line at the bank. Being in a sacred place is not a matter of geography, it is a matter of awareness and perspective.
Once we fully grasp this understanding that we create a sacred place wherever we are then we begin to understand that how we behave inside a place of worship and outside of a place of worship is the same, because all places which we stand, kneel, lie down are indeed sacred and just as close to source as we desire to be.
Live in love, live in spirit and know that you are sacred and that by you simply being can makre anywhere you are a sacred place.
Dear mark,
a wonderful approach to motivate attentive behaviour. On the other hand, I think there are places of great healing power or places where other abilities are intensified for which we might have no match inside.
Blessings
A random thought perhaps, but I wanted to drop in. I don’t do the amount of visiting I used to, not that I will not again, it is simply not what I can do at the moment. Yet, I wanted to share, I posted the piece the other day, about “getting it”, and it is your blog in particular I thought of when I posted the piece. And now I see here, yet another thought I have been carrying, the one of what makes anything more sacred than the next. I have been journeying awhile, as we all have, and I find, more recently, I regress to my childhool prayers which include the sacred spaces, for some reason, in mortar. Yet, I know, those places only hae what I lend them, the Divine in me, is not contained. Peace to you. And may continue on your journery, sharing the Divine Light, to ignite so many of us.
http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/love-is-the-highest-of-vibrations/
Scared is inside my imagination and Soul…
I fully agree with you Mark. Whether it is a Monastery or a market place, the source within is just the same. But to get connected and be aware of that universal source, initially one needs to withdraw from the usual sounds to experience the silence within.Holy places do render such golden opportunities, but then, to get stuck and isolate them from rest is ignorance.Wisdom is to know and also to be.
Excellent post!!
That’s a wonderful message Mark. Very good point. *smiles*
This reminded me of many years ago when I first had gone camping at one of pennsylvania’s state parks. Sunday came rolling around and they had posted on a tree, church service will be at 10 am down at the theater in the woods. When we showed up for service there were people sitting on rustic logs listening to a visiting preacher. It was never more clearer then at that moment how people become a church. As I was writing, I remembered the song that I taught my children using your hand this is the church this is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people. With out people it is just a building for there in the middle woods was 30 total strangers giving thanks for the day.
Ah yes, sacred is where we are, because it comes from within.
I used to think it had to be in a certain building at a certain time every week! When I no longer had that I thought I was lost. Until one day I was alone deep in the woods, and I heard the voice of God.
In the silence there I realized it was not only coming from the energies all around me….
but from my own heart.
Thank you for sharing your heart.
When I was in Sedona, Arizona a few years back, I went on a jeep ride up to several spots in the red rocks deemed ’sacred’. In a way that I cannot understand or verbalize, the feel of these spots (called ‘vortexes’) was different. Here was a case where there actually was something very special and somewhat different about a physical space. It ‘felt’ sacred in a way that the surrounding area(s) didn’t.
It might have been that there was an energetic footprint left by those that had gone before..shamans and holy people, perhaps, who had spent untold lifetimes on those rocks communing with the Great Spirit and with The Others.
What is your take on those types of Sacred Places, Mark? Any thoughts? There are a few places like this around the world. Another that comes to mind would be Isreal..and there are many in South America.
This article is so energizing and so inspiring.I love reading this post whenever I get time.Thanks so much for sharing it with us.God bless you
I loved the message here, I believe in what you say… we are all part of the holy spirit… we are all sacred… what a great post…
Oh so true!
I don’t think it’s the place itself that’s sacred… but the focus of people when they are gathered in a place like that. When I go to my wat, I feel the intentions and the purpose of the others who go as well. We’re gathered for a specific reason, a refuge from the “outside world”.