No holiness—vastness! | Vividness

Sacredness from that point of view is the discovery of goodness, which is independent of personal, social, or physical restrictions.

What’s in front of you is a very holy thing, all of it.

You may still believe that beautiful building is holy, but probably not in its “thingness.” You think it remains a holy place because the people, by willing it to be so, have given the ordinary material this value. It is holy not because it is in itself ontologically bound to the eternal but because human minds have given it meaning, willing to nam

It is very personal, very ordinary, and very matter-of-fact—nothing divine or blissed out, particularly. There is some kind of complete, open space, ground that has never been messed up by plowing or by sowing seeds—complete virgin territory.