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“Before what is 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; in short, by my conscience.”

People Loses Attitude Atheism Judgment Conscience Sacred Humble Positive Atheism Knees Declaration Powerless Declaring Bending

Book:The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

Source: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

“Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.”

Made Book Seems Attitude Becoming Sacred Change Your Attitude

Author:Lev Grossman

“We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.”

Moments Attitude Sacred Ownership

Author:Satish Kumar

“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.”

Self Christian Joy Spirit Suffering Opportunity Given Attitude Trouble Sorrow Difficulty Regard Sacred Reactions Pity Resentment Crowns Thorns Self Pity Fatalism Given Opportunity

Author:James Stewart

“The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.”

May Real Form Attitude Fundamentals Sacred

Book:Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

“There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.”

Self Attitude Acceptance Connections Sacred Subtle

Author:Thomas Merton

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

Mind Happiness Attitude Positive Positive Thinking Discipline Sacred Censorship Permission Self Discipline Censoring Enclosure

Book:The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.”

Life Is Jesus Attitude Sacred Conviction Charm Willingness Satisfying Creeds Dependence

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.”

Men Humans Religion Order Belief Attitude Sacred Cosmos Being Human

Author:Peter L. Berger

“The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.”

Knows Mind Stills Moments Simple Attitude Land Identity Approach Regard Sacred Aging Deeper Obligation Opening Subtle That Moment Mundane

Author:Barry Lopez

“[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that no belief be treated as sacred or above scrutiny.”

Way Want Kind Seems Belief Attitude Environment Criticism Sacred University Treated Totalitarianism Scrutiny Immunity Search For Truth

Author:Jeffrey Shallit