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“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

Mother Mom Terrible Morality Function Victim Sacred Motherhood Criminals

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.”

Art Form Religion Produce Grew Worship Function Sacred Drinking Excuse Occasions Tea Purity Host Guests Mundane Refinement Beverages

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.”

Home Seems Prayer Sleep Millions Streets Events Particular Eating India Function Sacred West Secular Asia Nursing Crude Dentistry Bodily Functions

Author:Steve McCurry

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.”

Humans Art Culture Religious Human Beings Creativity Environment Elements Direct Function Sacred Leisure Innate Artifacts Leisure Time Sacred Art

Author:Michael Ventura

“The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.”

Stills Seems Used Lost Function Originals Sacred Used To Be Email Reminders Texting Postcards Memento

Author:Elaine Equi

“When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.”

Way States Hands Our Lives Effects Judging Directors Understood Tradition Function Sacred Prison Lenses Pointers

Author:Marcus Borg