Anthony Lawlor Quotes

• Un lugar de soledad ofrece un retiro de las fuerzas opuestas y las diversas exigencias de la vida, una entrada en un estado de paz y unidad. Mente y cuerpo pueden retirarse de la confusión y el conflicto a un santuario de claridad y armonía.

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  Confusion, Solitude, Unity

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.

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  Memories, Memorial, World

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• Lo sagrado no puede definirse con precisión. Cada uno de nosotros lo percibe a través de la lente de una historia personal única. Para mí, lo sagrado es una experiencia del resplandor interior de la vida, la fuerza invisible que transforma y alimenta el mundo físico, pero que nunca se ve limitada por él. Hay algo más, un misterio que nunca se comprende del todo.

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  Unique, Unseen, Lenses

  Anthony Lawlor (1994). “The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture”, Tarcher

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• La arquitectura está hecha de memoria. La inclinación de un tejado, la forma de una ventana y el color de una puerta contienen el registro de las mentes que las concibieron y las manos que las elaboraron.

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  Memories, Doors, Hands

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• For thousands of years, much of humankind has believed that only special places are infused with the sacred and that you must get away from the everyday in order to find it. Not so, everything is infused with the holy--from chairs to clothing to kitchen stoves.

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  Order, Years, Kitchen

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• Todos somos peregrinos en un camino escurridizo e interminable... A pesar de nuestros intentos de construir vidas sobre cimientos de piedra, nuestros espíritus fluyen continuamente. Interminables corrientes de conciencia ondulan por nuestras mentes.

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  Journey, Mind, Flow

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• Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

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  Dream, Journey, Wonder

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

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  Travel, Journey, Each Day

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• In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

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  Views, Perception, Environment

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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

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  Stars, Ideas, Roots

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• El placer del alma parece encontrarse en el viaje del descubrimiento, en el despliegue de la revelación de una visión y una experiencia ampliadas.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Journey, Discovery, Soul

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Podríamos ceder al tirón de nuestros espíritus para explorar este mundo desconcertante y maravilloso. Podríamos saludarnos como peregrinos interminables y desearnos suerte en el camino. Porque ya estamos en camino.

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  Giving, World, Might

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• Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.

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  Running, Water, Vitality

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Cutting

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• Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Life, Opposites, Water

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