Showing posts with label Temple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temple. Show all posts

Monday, 15 August 2011

Nature is a Temple

Charles Baudelaire's “Correspondences” in An Anthology of French Poetry from de Nerval to Valery, trans. Angel Flores.
 
Nature is a temple from whose living columns
commingling voices emerge at times;
Here man wanders through forests of symbols
Which seem to observe him with familiar eyes. (21)

Saturday, 23 July 2011

Temples of Kindness: Heart and Brain

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.