“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” SoulSpiritualSpiritualityJourneyMomOrdinarySacredIncludingDetailsGloriousAfternoonSaturdayMondayMundaneBeing A MomRainyOrdinary LifeTuesdaySpiritual JourneySaturday Afternoon Author:Christina Baldwin
“Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.” SongSpeechOrdinarySacredSillyMediums Author:Oliver Herford
“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.” NeedsI CanHelpingLightActionSpiritualityPracticeOur LivesOrdinarySacredRitualCandleClosenessReceptive Author:Christina Baldwin
“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.” WorldMomentsRealityMovingOrderTechnologyEconomicMediaInformationMajorsOrdinarySacredDepthSpeedContemporaryDistractionImperativesInformation TechnologyImpedimentsEconomic OrderVirtual WorldContemporary LifeOrdinary Moments Author:Sam Keen
“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.” HeartRealTodayJoyGratitudeOrdinarySacredAffairReal LifeMeant To BeReverence Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“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.” MayFoundLostIgnoranceLessonsOrdinaryMiracleSacredScaredNeighborFlightDaily LifeElsewhereFamily And FriendsMiraculousBackyardsConfrontingNeighbors Friends Author:Abraham Maslow
“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.” FeelsEndsPlayMomentsHomeHouseSleepSpaceCommonOur LivesOne ThingStageSafeSummerOrdinarySacredFamiliarJust OneLocationRest And Peace Author:Katrina Kenison
“If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.” IfsHappenedOrdinarySacredEcstasyIntrusion Book:Cutting for Stone Source: Cutting for Stone
“...the great lesson is 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 backyard.” InspirationalFaithFoundLessonsOrdinarySacredNeighborDaily LifeFamily And FriendsBackyardsNeighbors Friends Author:Abraham Maslow
“The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.” WayLongBookSeemsChristianUsedNamesLanguageChurchSpaceGraceOrdinaryConceptsGratefulSacredAbstractInwardSacramentsDeanLuminousNelsonI Am Grateful Author:Lauren F. Winner