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Sacredness is to be connected to God and therefore worthy of veneration

• Sacred: Connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.  Oxford Dictionary
• Sacred: Considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with a god.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Sacred: Dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity.  Merriam Webster
• Sacred: Entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy.  Dictionary.com
• God,  Religion,  Spirituality,  Oneness,  Appreciation,  Purity,  Reverence,  Awe,  Wonder

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All things are sacred

• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don’t get caught up in spiritual superficialities. Lao Tzu
• Dreams, memories, the sacred–they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles. Yukio Mishima
• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. Dogen
• Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space. Ravi Ravindra
• Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose. Allow your life to unfold naturally. Lao Tzu
• Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. M. Stirling
• Sikh tradition begins with the simple premise that all the universe is sacred and worthy of respect. Every bush, ant and tree is, in its own way, engaged in worship. Sikh
• The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists – that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard … To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is sacred. Abraham Maslow
• The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. Carter Heyward
• When you go deep enough into the formless, the dreadful is no longer dreadful, it’s sacred. Eckhart Tolle
• It doesn’t have to be sombre to be sacred. David Wolpe
• There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Wendell Berry
• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as the most sacred moment that has ever been given to us. Then perhaps we are awake a bit more, perhaps breathing together with God. Reshad Field
• All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air. Helen Hunt
• Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred… Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. Hafez
• It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be torn down. From now on everything is sacred. Paulo Coelho
• A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. William Cowper
• The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course, the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other. Alma Luz Villanueva

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The ordinary is sacred

• The great lesson is that the sacred in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard. Abraham Maslow
• The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. Alan Watts
• Real Life – the real life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments. Frederick Buechner
• If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. Abraham Verghese
• To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.  Novalis
• The sacred is in the ordinary…it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s own backyard…travel may be a flight from confronting the scared–this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous. Abraham Maslow
• Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary. Ming-Dao Deng
• Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail…. The spiritual journey is the soul’s life commingling with ordinary life. Christina Baldwin
• Real Life – the real life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action – even ordinary action – so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need. Christina Baldwin
• You can find the sacred in the most ordinary things. Oprah Winfrey

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Little things are sacred

• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope.  Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight.  Find the light in each other and just fan it.  Alice O. Howell
• The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments. Frederick Buechner
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Life is sacred

• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Albert Schweitzer
• A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred. Frederick Lenz
• Appreciate the sacred life you have, it is a gift from God. Lailah Gifty Akita
• Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source. Thomas Merton
• Don’t stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred. Albert Schweitzer
• Each being is sacred – meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. Starhawk
• Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred…Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. Gary Zukav
• Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude. Pope John Paul II
• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it’s to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total. David Gerrold
• I’m still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I’m now a reverant agnostic. Which isn’t an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there’s a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It’s possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn’t take away from its power or importance. J. Jacobs
• Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred – unconditionally. Stephanie Dowrick
• Life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. Scott Cloud Lee
• Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. Albert Einstein
• LIfe is sacred. Life is art.  Life is sacred art.  The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego.  The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being.  It is up to each of us to celebrate and actualize our being, and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art.  Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full, authentic self- exploration.  The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.  Gabrielle Roth
• Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it. Platen
• Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them. Thomas Noon Talfourd
• The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped. Anthony Lawlor
• There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred. Nat Hentoff
• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed. Albert Schweitzer
• When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what’s happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible. Joanna Macy
• When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself. Phillip Moffitt
• You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us. Mother Teresa

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Living is sacred

• I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies. Gunilla Brodde Norris
• I will behold my life as glorious in sickness as well as health. In despair and in hope. In sadness and happiness. This will be my gift. This is my sacred song. To behold the wonder and glory – and to proclaim it loud and clear for all to hear. There is no greater honour than to honour myself. My life. All I can see and touch. Every person I meet. Each day becomes my miracle, simply because I live within the Great Mystery. The Great Mystery is there in all I do and experience. Each day becomes a tribute and a prayer and worship. Always together. Always one. Holy art thou, Mysterious One. John Kehoe
• Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.  Henry Ward Beecher
• There are many things to be grateful “for” but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing. Michael Mahoney
• When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. Scott Cloud Lee
• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path… exactly where you are meant to be right now… And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love. Caroline Adams Miller
• It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be. Cheryl Strayed
• Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before.  It is a quest to find ourselves:  who and what we really are.  To do this we must first cease to pretend to be what we are not.  We must cast away our Persona or mask.  We must be prepared to confront the Shadow, that which we are and rather were not.  Only then can we unify our conscious and unconscious minds and so give birth to the hidden Sun – the Self.  Vivianne Crowley
• I don’t see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It’s all an open place of service before our God. Charles R. Swindoll
• Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice. Frederick Buechner
• Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger. Anthony Lawlor
• To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. Frank Herbert
• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. Paulo Coelho
• Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man’s story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross. Hermann Hesse
• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey
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Experience is sacred…

• Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. James Madison
• Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation. Alan Cohen
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… including our mistakes

• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. Salvador Dali
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Each moment is sacred…

• There is no such thing as a mundane moment. Only mundane states of mind. Melli O’Brien
• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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…especially the present moment

• When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake. Eckhart Tolle
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Time is sacred

• Until we can sense a sacred quality in time, we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it. Lawrence Fagg
• Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.  Boyd K. Packer
• Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.  John Burroughs
• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Our senses are sacred

• Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Death is sacred

• Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity – Remind yourself of this when you sit with a dying person.  It is a great privilege and a sacred act to be present at a person’s death as a witness and companion.  Eckhart Tolle
• I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. Stephen Levine
• Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form. That is why the most sacred thing in life is death.  That is why the peace of God can come to you through contemplation and acceptance of death.  Eckhart Tolle
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• All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order.  There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one- -if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.  Marcus Aurelius
• And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. Black Elk
• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy. Black Elk
• If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved. Satish Kumar
• Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one. Plato
• Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her. D. H. Lawrence
• Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. Jonathan Haidt
• There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. Catherine Ponder
• Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation. Andrew Harvey
• When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we’re staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness. Alex Grey
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Each of us is sacred…

• I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits. Brené Brown
• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God. Theodore Parker
• The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. Henry David Thoreau
• The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness – and we are utilizing that sacredness. Christine McCormick Day
• When we lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. Neale Donald Walsch
• Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you. Amy Leigh Mercree
• Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved. Jean Vanier
• No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred. Bryant H McGill
• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. Black Elk
• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world’s Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. Thomas Carlyle
• Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives. Albert Pike
• When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. Stephen Levine

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Our humanness is sacred

• I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. C. JoyBell C.

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Children are sacred

• God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God. Max Lucado
• It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives. Thomas S. Monson
• I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.  Ludwig van Beethoven
• One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. Robert Green Ingersoll
• There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. Kofi Annan
• Every child’s life is sacred, and it is long past time that we protect it.  Marian Wright Edelman

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Human rights are sacred

• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson

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The soul is sacred

• True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower. Rumi
• Don’t let anything remain sacred in a man’s soul—and his soul won’t be sacred to him. Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man. Ayn Rand
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Our inner being is sacred

• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought. Katie Davis
• Don’t fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul. Paulo Coelho
• 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. James Redfield
• The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped. Anthony Lawlor
• There is, at least there sometimes seems to be, a certain blessedness lying at the heart of things, a mysterious blessedness, of whose existence occasional accidents or providences (for me, this night is one of them) make us obscurely, or it may be intensely, but always fleetingly, alas, always only for a few brief moments aware. Aldous Huxley
• We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. Cummings
• When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which has been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly a great stillness aries within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred and immeasurable, That which cannot be named. Eckhart Tolle
• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell
• There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the “sacred” attitude and the acceptance of one’s in most self. Thomas Merton
• Every being has its own interior, itself, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total, or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being. Thomas Berry
• To recognize another’s inwardness is to have seen the sacred. Peter Koestenbaum
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The mind is sacred

• The most sacred place in the world is your mind. Guard it ferociously. Rick Beneteau
• Nothing is a last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The body is sacred

• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• The human body is sacred – the veritable tabernacle of the divine spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage and weakness. Stephen L. Richards
• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. Saraha
• The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation…. It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental. May Sarton
• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come…he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God? Mark E. Petersen
• The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions. David Simon
• Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places…I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body. Saraha
• 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. Tracee Ellis Ross
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The heart is sacred

• Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart. Willow Smith
• For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart. Sri Guru Granth
• Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten – it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging. Llewellyn Vaughan-Leeitself.  Rumi
• The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. Bhagawan Nityananda
• The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen… as the whispering beat repeats: be…gin, be…gin, be…gin. It’s really that simple. Just begin… again. Royce Addington
• Your heart is sacred land. Don’t let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life. Yasmin Mogahed
• Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. Rumi
• Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed. Iyanla Vanzant
• Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart. Gertrude the Great
• Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred – even more the heart is sacredness itself. Rumi
• Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. Bernadette Soubirous
• The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. Joseph B. Wirthlin
• The heart in every human is the sacred love. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The universe is sacred

• The Universe is sacred. You cannot improve it, if you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it. Lao Tzu
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The world is sacred

• I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Louis Armstrong  (What a Wonderful World)
• Our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom — and is far more vibrant, far more holy, than we could ever imagine. Sy Montgomery
• The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. Brave Bird, Mary

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The earth is sacred

• As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer. Black Elk
• Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth. Gary Paul Nabhan
• Life is a magnificent manifestation where if we honour Sacred Mother Earth, rivers of love will flow freely. New levels of spiritual awareness are upon us and by recognizing their beauty we can inspire every aspect of our lives. Let your soul be an oasis of transformation that takes your life to the next level and fulfills your dreams. Rejoice in your awakening, the future is now and love is in every breath you take. Micheal Teal
• That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. Paul Tsongas
• The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. Carter Heyward
• To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space. Scott Momaday
• The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it.  Lao Tzu
• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
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Nature is sacred

• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing. Eckhart Tolle
• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. Mikhail Gorbachev
• I stood still, paralyzed by the beauty and the magic of this moment. Everything stopped, even my breath. Like a sloth, I didn’t want to move. There was nowhere else I needed or wanted to be. Standing there absorbing the beauty of this place, I stepped out of time. In this timeless moment, I saw and felt the unity of all things. There it was all around me: the chaos of the natural world, silently woven into a tapestry of exquisite, perfect order. I felt at one with the trees, rocks, plants, birds, insects, squirrels, leaves, and water. A witness to this sacred scene, I felt humbled and blessed to be given this moment. Judith Rich
• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation. Eugene Green
• In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation. Sigurd F. Olson
• Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach. Paulo Coelho
• My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth. Juliet Marillier
• So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Mikhail Gorbachev
• The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself. Nature is not merely created by God, nature is God. Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with his entire body, breath sacredness and contain it within himself, drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness, open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness. Richard Nelson
• When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you. Eckhart Tolle
• We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them. Frederick Lenz
• The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. John Greenleaf Whittier
• A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind. John Townsend Trowbridge
• When you consider Life as sacred, Nature waits on you. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city? Willi Unsoeld
• I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. Edgar Allan Poe
• Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories. Martha Brooks
• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence. Thomas Berry
• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. Henry David Thoreau
• The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity — then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective. David Suzuki
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Trees are sacred

• Approaching a tree we approach a sacred being who can teach us about love and about endless giving. She is one of millions of beings who provide our air, our homes, our fuel, our books.  Working with the spirit of the tree can bring us renewed energy, powerful inspiration, deep communion.  Druid Tree Lore and the Ogham
• It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Black Elk
• The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or ‘wholly other. Mircea Eliade
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Love is sacred

• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore, love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but…God IS poetry. Vasant Lad
• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. Lord Byron
• Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest. Khalil Gibran
• Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.  James Hervey
• I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine. Vanna Bonta
• There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross. Anna Akhmatova
• Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her. H. Lawrence
• In love the ordinary is made sacred. Arthur Dobrin
• The heart in every human is the sacred love. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Forgiveness is sacred

• Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process. Sidney Poitier
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Romance is sacred

• Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. Marianne Williamson
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Sex and sexuality is sacred

• It’s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation. Marcus Allen
• Like meditation or prayer, sex should be a special time of practicing opening your heart and giving love fully, into and through your partner, and in communion with that which you hold most sacred. David Deida
• Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you’ll emerge into new and unexpected states of being. Alexandra Katehakis
• The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform. Patricia Briggs
• When your heart is open and you are making love, there is no separation between you, your partner and God. This is healing sex.  This is connecting with the Divine.  And the important thing to develop is the sense that this sacred experience is available in all instants.  It is not limited to sex. Philip Smith
• Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. Marianne Williamson
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Friendship is sacred

• The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person?  Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple?  They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.  Eugene Kennedy
• Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one’s friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life. David O. McKay
• The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. Katherine Mansfield
• My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Marriage is sacred

• All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe. Rob Jackson
• I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman. Hillary Clinton
• Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is “holiness to the Lord. Jeremy Taylor
• The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius
• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.   H. Lawrence
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Family is sacred

• The family is more sacred than the state. Pope Pius XI
• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household. Lyman Abbott
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Food and sharing a meal are sacred

• When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. Joyce Carol Oates
• There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal. Henri Nouwen
• The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed. Julia Child
• Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we’ve changed its nature. Mehmet Oz
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Truth is sacred

• Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. Amos Bronson Alcott
• To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred. Ludwig Feuerbach
• This “human thing” is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation. Curtis White
• The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself. Thomas Merton
• Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Vince Lombardi
• The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.  Simone Weil
• Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred. P. Scott
• A noble truth is a sacred creed. Bob Dylan
• All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path. Lauren Artress
• Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Knowledge is sacred

• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. Nazr Mohammed
• Within the sacred walls of libraries, we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.  Christian Nestell Bovee
• In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God. Dallin H. Oaks
• There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world. Marianne Williamson
• Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance. Louis Agassiz
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Education is sacred

• Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like. Enoch Powell
• …education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one’s life is measured.  Greg Mortenson
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Having a sense of purpose and meaning are sacred

• A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi. Rajneesh
• Each of us has a gift, a talent to give back to the world. It may be small or large, it does not matter. The sacred song is our unique gift, our purpose, and each of us was born to discover and share it with the world. John Kehoe
• May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work. John O’Donohue
• Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. Dean Ornish
• Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.  Dillon Burroughs
• You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you. Gary Zukav
• A sacred calling does not entitle us to smooth sailing and a trouble-free occupation is also a summons to joy, and life, and most of all, love. Alan Eschenbacher
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Work is sacred

• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair. Thomas Carlyle
• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. Grenville Kleiser
• Work to me is a sacred thing. Margaret Bourke-White
• Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change. Tony Robbins
• It is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. Wayne Muller
• Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey. Wayne Teasdale
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Principles are sacred

• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Attitude is sacred

• The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself. Thomas Merton
• There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the “sacred” attitude and the acceptance of one’s in most self. Thomas Merton
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Justice is sacred

• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. Sophocles
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Integrity and keeping your work are sacred

• I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character – not wealth or power or position – is of supreme worth.  D. Rockefeller
• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Loyalty is sacred

• Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart. Daunte Culpepper
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Self-respect is sacred

• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Theodore Parker
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Passion is sacred

• All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth.  Sam Keen
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Trust is sacred

• Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
• Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Joy is sacred

• From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt. Paramahansa Yogananda
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The golden rule is sacred

• This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. Neale Donald Walsch
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Attention is sacred

• Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there. Michel de Salzmann
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Intuition is sacred

• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
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Tears are sacred

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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Freedom is sacred

• Liberty and equality–lovely and sacred words!” Giuseppe Mazzini
• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. Edward Everett
• The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred “No” even to duty — for that, my brothers, the lion is needed. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. Naguib Mahfouz
• Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all – and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.  Thomas Jefferson
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Service is sacred

• There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. Woodrow Wilson
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Stories are sacred

• Sacred stories are those of transformation, they are stories that draw us closer to what I call the Lord Within The Heart, and they help us to see our connection to all things. There’s a saying in the Jewish tradition that the shortest distance between human and God is through a story. So if storytelling is a journey, sacred storytelling is a pilgrimage to a place called Hope. Andy Fraenkel
• The story was the bushman’s most sacred possession. These people knew what we do not; that without a story you have not got a nation, or culture, or civilization. Without a story of your own, you haven’t got a life of your own. Laurens Van der Post
• Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. Terry Tempest Williams
• Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart. Susan Wittig Albert
• Every man’s story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration. Hermann Hesse
• Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. Gerald Hausman
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Dreams are sacred

• When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams – fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act.   Alberto Villoldo
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Idleness is sacred

• Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. George MacDonald
• How sweet and sacred idleness is! Walter Savage Landor
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Revelation is sacred

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

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Choice is sacred

• Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen. James Alan Gardner
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Conscience and morality are sacred

• Conscience is the most sacred of all property. James Madison
• The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. Napoleon
• Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet nothing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience. Max Stirner
• The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced – that without intelligence we should be brutes – but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world. George Henry Lewes
• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. James Madison
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The feminine is sacred

• Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species. Andrew Harvey
• Within the sacred walls of libraries, we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. Christian Nestell Bovee

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Words are sacred

• I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. Tom Stoppard
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Home is sacred

• Home is the sacred refuge of our life. John Dryden
• A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.  Bil Keane
• The kitchen is a sacred space. Marc Forgione
• One thing we’ve learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than “home” is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred. Katrina Kenison
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Dogs and our relationship with them are sacred

• A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder. R. Gurney
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More sacred principles

• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thinking is sacred

• Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.  Heraclitus
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Laughter is sacred

• Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free. Ted Loder
• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. Abraham Maslow
• I think laughter is a sacred act. Tom Shadyac
• It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray. Charles R. Swindoll
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Music and making music are sacred

• The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art. Heitor Villa-Lobos
• What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music. Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Dance is sacred

• In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple. Mata Hari
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Art is sacred

• Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. W.H. Auden
• Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.  Giotto di Bondone
• In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. Vincent van Gogh
• In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.  Auguste Rodin
• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they’re taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition. Steven Pressfield
• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me. Joan Miro
• The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal. Joseph Plaskett
• If you can’t spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between the sacred and profane, you’ll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Poetry is sacred

• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah. Khalil Gibran

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Playing is sacred

• The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. Isak Dinesen
• Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life. G. Holland
• To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. Rajneesh
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• We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. Albert Einstein
• If we are to respect others’ religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world’s religion is a sacred duty. Mahatma Gandhi
• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. Mahatma Gandhi
• I have other duties equally sacred … Duties to myself. Henrik Ibsen
• I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us. Emmylou Harris
• Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty. Gandhi

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We need an appreciation of sacredness in our lives

• It is likely … that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves. Richard M. Weaver
• Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.   C. Ryle
• In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.  Phil Cousineau
• Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost — all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. Powell Davies
• That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. Henry David Thoreau
• We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs. Joseph Bruchac
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An appreciation and recognition of sacredness transforms us

• If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred – ever brushed against the holy – you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory. Daniel Taylor
• What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly. Phil Cousineau
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Appreciate sacredness by being in a state of awareness and noticing it

• Awaken your spiritual vision: see clearly and recognize the sacred in all things. Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred. Katrina Kenison
• Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. Robert Bly
• Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves. Stephanie Dowrick
• Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace. Charlene Spretnak
• I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world. Albert Camus
• Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart. Joan D. Chittister
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Appreciate the sacred through connection to God

• Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Rumi
• You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t- shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. Anthon St. Maarten
• We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening. Anodea Judith
• God is for man the commonplace book where he registers his highest feelings and thoughts, the genealogical album into which he enters the names of the things most dear and sacred to him. Ludwig Feuerbach
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Appreciate the sacred through celebrating it

• The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. N. Scott Momaday

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Appreciate the sacred through humility and egolessness

• To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. Dag Hammarskjöld
• Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience. Pema Chodron
• I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. Jim Harrison
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Appreciate the sacred by slowing downing

• So slow down, friend. Take a deep and conscious breath. Trust the place where you are, the place of ‘no answers yet’, the precious place of not knowing. This place is sacred, for it is 100% life. It is full of life, saturated with life, dripping with life. Jeff Foster
• So, this is what the slow lane is about, I realized. Sipping and savoring tiny moments, stopping the clock and slipping out of time, feeling my own heart begin to synchronize with the rhythms of nature and being in the presence of the sacred. Judith Rich
• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology. Sam Keen
• Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. May Sarton
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Appreciate the sacred through gratitude

• To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.   Joan D. Chittister
• Real Life – the real life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Getting in the gratitude groove softens the heart, opens the mind, causing even seemingly ordinary things to become sacred. Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Appreciate the sacred through meditation

• Meditation must become a daily rite, a part of the regime which is, like lunch or dinner, not to be missed, but regarded with a sacredness the body’s feeding does not have. Paul Brunton
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Appreciate the sacred through prayer

• The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.  Prayer enables us to transform the world, because it transforms us.  Marianne  Williamson
• The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that – an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. Sue Monk Kidd
• Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come. Isaac Watts
• Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. Thomas Keating
• Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings. Thomas S. Monson
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Appreciate the sacred through alertness

• Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred. Rajneesh

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Appreciate the sacred through spirituality and spiritual practices

• Spirituality is defined as a “search for the sacred” – that is, a search for meaning in life through something that is larger than the individual self. KI Pargament
• Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created. Starhawk
• The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. Abraham Heschel
• We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred. Jack Kornfield
• We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness. Christine McCormick Day
• Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Henri Nouwen
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Appreciate the sacred through awareness and mindfulness

• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart. Joan D. Chittister
• Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred. Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred. Wayne Muller
• To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. Eckhart Tolle
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Appreciate the sacred through creative expression

• The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred. Mark Nepo
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Appreciate the sacred through inner stillness

• Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought. Eckhart Tolle
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Appreciate the sacred through silence

• If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold. Rod Stryker
• Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone. Frederick William Robertson
• Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred.  It always returns you home. Barbara De Angelis
• There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses. Eugene Kennedy
• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter. Matsuo Basho
• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. … The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center. Christina Baldwin
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Appreciate the sacred through solitude

• Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others. Brennan Manning
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Do sacred things

• Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Why is it so important—what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Ayn Rand
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Doing becomes sacred when we are present

• Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do – to do everything in a sacred manner. Eckhart Tolle
• To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. Eckhart Tolle
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Some argue we should question everything, holding no knowledge as sacred

• Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, “Is this true?” “Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?” To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. Saul D. Alinsky
• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred. Shailene Woodley
• No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement. Edward De Bono
• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant
• Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought… Robert Green Ingersoll

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They argue sacredness is often habit and prejudice that holds us back

• The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred. Peter Rollins
• All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit. Cesare Pavese
• The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday. Sam Harris
• Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter. Max Stirner
• The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. Bryant H. McGill
• The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth. Mark Russell
• Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee. Max Stirner
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They argue that sacredness is none other than something we do not understand

• The words secret and sacred are siblings. Mary Ruefle
• To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance. Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Sacred cows exist to be slayed

• Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. Albert Szent- Gyorgyi
• Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks. Dick Nicolosi
• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. Abbie Hoffman
• Irreverence is our only sacred cow. Paul Krassner
• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. Abba Eban
• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven’t conquered a people, or their place, until you’ve exterminated their resident monsters. David Quammen
• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. George H. Smith

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Not everyone believes in sacredness

• We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark. Elie Wiesel
• As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. Kurt Vonnegut
• If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die…where does the sacred part come in? George Carlin
• These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle. Allan Bloom

In our modern society, we have devalued sacredness…

• The present age … prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence … for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Ludwig Feuerbach
• Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled. Anodea Judith
• Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Thomas Yellowtail

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… especially through the worship of money

• There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred. Ron Kauk
• Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus
• To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they’re all about honoring the circle, and they’re just different ways of defining the same understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life, has devalued the sacred and devalued love. Julia Hill
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• There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred? Les Dawson

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