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The Round Church, Temple Church, Temple, London, UK. It’s one of the most historic and beautiful churches in London and apparently the oldest gothic building in England. The Church was built by the Knights Templar, the order of crusading monks founded to protect pilgrims on their way to and from Jerusalem in the 12th century.
The Church is in two parts: the Round and the Chancel. The Round Church was consecrated in 1185 by the patriarch of Jerusalem. It was designed to recall the holiest place in the Crusaders’ world: the circular Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It’s situated ‘off street’ between Fleet Street and the River Thames, in an ‘oasis’ of ancient buildings, courtyards and gardens, including the Inner and Middle Temple.
It’s been a while since I’ve had an opportunity to visit a place of religious significance. It was unexpected too as the church is not open during the weekend normally, I was only expecting to see the outside. Some work was being carried out and the door was open so we walked in and had the place to ourselves. I placed the phone on the floor for this single shot. Zeiss ExoLens (Wide-Angle) add on lens, Shoulderpod S1, Hisy remote, religiously tickled in Snapseed on iPad Pro.
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The violent love of God breaks through deafness and blindness; the violent desire of human souls for God breaks through dumbness. The heart has no words, but it cannot contain itself in silence: ‘Love grown cold in the heart’s silence; love on fire, the heart’s clamour’ (in Ps. 36.14).
--The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.”
-Jean Vanier
Union with God is not something we can or need to acquire. By way of the contemplative skills of engaged receptivity and release, we realize this Union ever more deeply and clearly throughout the course of the days given us. God is too simple to be absent. It is we who, with complicated and cluttered minds, remain unaware that this foundational Light is flowering perpetually in the fertile and unfathomable right now.
-An Ocean of Light Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation-Martin Laird, O.S.A.
“The soul takes her being immediately from God: therefore God is nearer to the soul than she is to herself, and therefore God is in the ground of the soul with all His Godhead.”
-Meister Eckhart, Sermon 66, in Meister Eckhart: Sermons and Treatises, vol. 2, trans. and ed. M. O’C. Walshe (Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books, 1979), 139.
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iPhone8 Plus
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Photoshop CS5.5
Quote is by Kabir, a 15th century Indian mystic poet
Walked along Little Venice canal again yesterday and this caught my eye, situated under the Westway flyover, near Notting Hill, London. Tried a different approach with this one and took a handheld shot with the iPhone by using/choosing/applying a filter before pressing the shutter release, so no editing was either necessary nor applied.