According to Belden Lane author of Landscapes of the Sacred

According to Belden Lane, author of Landscapes of the Sacred, “…encountering God at the Sacred center of one’s being is the goal of all worship.” Lane discusses five representative places as being sacred to Native American Spirituality. Choose two out of the five and discuss how union is achieved through the bringing together of the exterior state with one’s interior state. Explain the meaning of the Shaker saying, “Heaven and earth are threads of one loom.” Offer some examples of how the Shakers strove to symbolically live-out this belief. How does the Shaker view compare to those offered in the selections from William Blake and the Qu\'ran.

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the Shakers believed that everything around them should be a true reflection of the inner spirit..All of the virtues that were good for their souls-honesty,utility,simplicity,purity,order,precision,economy...
Shakers laid out simple but they made remarably uesful and beautiful objects to use daiuly life.

\"meant in the praxis of shaker life was that all spatial re-lationships and ordinary experiences would become sacramental pointing beyond themselveves to a large and more powerful reality