Quotes About Sacred

Remind me in countless ways, as I walk the sunlit hours of this day, that I am on a sacred journey along with the stars traveling through space, that I am on a pilgrim path.

the disappearance in our lives of a sense of the sacred. With nothing to evoke awe, wonder, or devotion, we inevitably feel empty within, Maslow contended, for these are intrinsic human needs. In a similar way, we have lost genuine heroes; the very concept of heroism has become suspect, old-fashioned, and seemingly obsolete. The same has occurred with such traditional virtues as courage, fidelity, and reverence.

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.

Living for others is a charity of life; it is a path of sacred ones.

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

Para nada serve esse amontoado de acontecimentos sem sentido ao que ordinariamente se dá o nome de experiência. Apenas, sagrada e triste, contém ela, em si, a dor, as lágrimas, a exultação e os extravios — enfim, o bem e o mal misturados que implica, necessariamente, toda e qualquer história de homem.

Para nada serve esse amontoado de acontecimentos sem sentido ao que ordinariamente se dá o nome de experiência. Apenas, sagrada e triste, contém ela, em si, a dor, as lágrimas, a exultação e os extravios — enfim, o bem e o mal misturados que implicam, necessariamente, toda e qualquer história de homem.

In this moment, everything is sacred.

Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

It's a sacred thing, but I do want to get married. I'd love that.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said that God himself inhabits.

They'll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng, With words of heavenly union.

Îmi cunosc soarta. Cândva se va lega de numele meu amintirea a ceva monstruos – a unei crize cum nu a mai existat pe p?mânt, a celei mai profunde ciocniri de conÅŸtiinÅ£e, a unei decizii conjurate împotriva a tot ceea ce se crezuse, se ceruse, se considerase sfânt pân? atunci. Eu nu sunt om, eu sunt dinamit?.

Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.

One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.

Sometimes love was sacred, the most holy and powerful force in the universe. Sometimes it was a warm, fuzzy feeling. Occasionally it was a wildfire of passion that, like cognac, inflamed every cell of your body. And sometimes it was just a decision, plain and simple.

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.