“The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.” MenHumansImportantPlayReligiousRolesModernAwarenessRelationDown AndCrisisSacredAwakeningAbsenceContactModern Man Author:Mircea Eliade
“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.” WorldTogetherLife IsAwarenessSacredOur World Author:Joan D. Chittister
“I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.” SoulCarePainHateLosesTeachingAwarenessI HateSacredRewardsDon't CareMy SoulI Don't CareJustifyDestroying Author:Paulo Coelho
“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.” FeelsJobsSpiritualSituationPracticeKindnessAwarenessClothesSacredAssumingDietsAddressesDaily LifeSpiritual LifeOur RelationshipVitalitySpiritual Practice Author:Wayne Muller
“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.” WritingAliveAwarenessSacredMachineryUnwaveringBreakfast Of Champions Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.” ActionAwarenessSacredSunlightPeace Is Every Step Book:The Sun My Heart Source: The Sun My Heart
“Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!” ShouldSelfPlayFunSinPayRolesAwarenessDeserveSacredIncludingExpectedNineStatementsDeceitCowsOnly TimeHomageCardinalsSatanicSacred Cows Author:Anton Szandor LaVey
“And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.” GivingSometimesReligiousGroupsAwarenessSacredStrangerSelfishnessIdeologicalJerkHabitualOthernessIntonation Author:Karen Armstrong