To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human
existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they
stand for
the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If
you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its
sacred places. At
Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the
pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one
with a spirit
that pervades geologic time and space.
Again, and yet again, yes!
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