Few people truly realize that sacredness is not inherent in
the thing or the place. Rather, human beings endow the thing or the place with
its sacred meaning. It is through our actions, our spiritual needs or our
mythological stories that places and objects take on a dimension of the sacred.
In turn these things inspire the sacred in the world around them.
For some people, all of nature and the world is sacred. For
others, greed and the lust for power destroy the sacred in everything. And this
is critical to understand at a time when we humans are failing greatly to see
the sacred in the world and in each other.
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