The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
I have been given many teachings by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. OKami told me, 'By the work of Takehaya Susanowo no Mikoto, you will worship… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones-… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like… — Jeff Greenwald Copy Share Image
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
