“In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Under the mystichood ofNameless Bride, we grope in Her Sacred Darkness for plasmatic encounter, the fifth ionized state of matter. Our mundane… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of our lives and the wisdom each phase… — Patrick Wynne Copy Share Image
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant,… — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). — Daniel Brook Copy Share Image
I am not religious, but I still feel there is a sacredness about Mothering Sunday, even when I'm just enjoying a lie-in… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't live in the past - you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one - sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian - culture is an act… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life. — Paul Pearsall Copy Share Image
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
