Lens Artists Challenge #254: Spiritual Sites

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This week the Lens-Artists challenge is focused on Spiritual Sites. While many associate spirituality with religion, the Oxford dictionary defines it as “relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things”, a much wider interpretation. Visit her site for inspiration  Tina’s Lens-Artists Challenge

Nature is the very heart of our spirituality, “Nature is my god.” This beautiful Planet Earth is our mother and our home.

When I am in nature I feel whole and connected and larger than life, but also insignificant & part of something bigger than myself. Isn’t that the sense of religion at its core?

Historically, nature, mountains, rivers, trees, the sun, the moon have always been honored in ancient cultures.

Ancient wisdom describes human beings as having five layers of experience: the environment, the physical body, the mind, the intuition and our self or spirit.

Spiritual life in Churches, Temples, Cathedrals, around the world

For inspiration check out the other participants in this challenge you can find them with the Lens-Artists tag.  lens-artist tag

20 thoughts on “Lens Artists Challenge #254: Spiritual Sites”

  2. Truth. Nature brings out our innermost spiritual blessings to others. Yet, it’s good to have a temple just to sit. As always, your photos are excellent.

  4. Beautifully said and shown Ritva. I like your use of the grids to combine your images. Your opening mountain image is breathtaking.

  6. oh. yes…Nature in its finest with your photos, Ritva. I had never heard of the 5 layers of experience. I loved all your nature photos. The photo looking out the window at the Buddhist Temple was beautiful. A moment inside to ponder what was outside…

  9. Great great photos as always, carefully selected and presented. I love Nature, and the collective ‘we’ love our houses of worship. What is that snow-capped mountain? Beautiful!

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