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The original idea of a mosque was a simple bare place where there were no things to distract attention and no sounds to disturb it, where the decorations were plain enough to suggest no idea at all. This is the kind of place which helps some temperaments to get on without hindrance with the work of meditation. But there are others--with imaginative artistic or poetic temperaments--who need quite the opposite kind of place to stimulate or inspire them.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 2 : Place and Condition > # 78