Places

There is a temple dedicated to the goddess Lakshmi near my house. It is an expanse of white and incredibly beautiful. Although the temple is Hindu, it feels completely nondenominational. You can imprint nearly any religious values you hold onto the smooth white surfaces. I welcomed the sense of peace and connectedness I felt as I walked barefoot through the temple with the other worshipers. When I focused inward, I could even feel the sluggish awakening of some kind of inner spirituality as it tentatively tested the walls of rationality, reason, skepticism, and atheism that enclosed it from all sides.