“Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.”

“Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)”

“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.”

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

“A soul that becomes the place where divine grace is harbored and encouraged joins the class of the immortals and lives on into eternal greatness.”

“If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.”