Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.
All places are places of worship to a Christian.
We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment.
I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are likely to flow, and simply begin to write.
Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.
You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).
My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.
I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
Japan is not a land where men need pray / For 'tis itself divine
Until their defeat in WWII, most Japanese believed that the Emperor and the Nation itself was divine.
To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.