Sacred Quotes - Page 16

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

Love wins. Sleep is a healer. Loved ones are sacred.

Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.

You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes.

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.

Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?