“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.” ArtMagicEventsMaterialsArt IsSacredNotionPossessionWoundsIncarnationOverloadSpillingMagic Words Author:Joyelle McSweeney
“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.” HomeSeemsPrayerSleepMillionsStreetsEventsParticularEatingIndiaFunctionSacredWestSecularAsiaNursingCrudeDentistryBodily Functions Author:Steve McCurry
“The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.” MenMadeWantedChristianDiesChoicesSpeakEventsParticularSacredChristmasSoilChristian FaithReligious ChristmasChoices Made Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.” MenPhilosophyEventsDivinePoetHolyAll ThingsSacredSaintPhilosopherFriendlyProfitable Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.” PeopleWellsStillsSelfStoriesInterestWonderOpinionIssuesTeachingEventsSacredInspiredTerrorSupposed To BeExplanationBiographiesSelf InterestImmediacySmall TalkSketchy Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives.” ImportantHouseEventsHolyBlessingEssentialsGainsSacredSignificantSavingMortalsPreparationTemplesParticipationCeremonyCovenantExaltationEdificeOrdinancesHoly PlacesSignificant Events Author:Robert D. Hales
“Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.” MenWorldDoeDifferentShowsRealitySpiritReligionSpiritualityEventsObjectsSacredEncountersOur WorldProfane Author:Mircea Eliade
“The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited at different times with widely divergent aims. This sacred work of so many epochs and so many hands contains some facts of provable history, some stories of unprovable myth, some poetry of soaring beauty, and many passages of unintelligible, perhaps coded, perhaps simply mistranslated, mystery. Most of it is written not to recount events but to promote a higher truth—the relationship of one people and their God.” PeopleBookDifferentFactsStoriesHandsWrittenMysteryEventsHigherAimSacredLibraryMythPassagesDocumentsMysticalSoarDivergentDifferent TimesEditedMany Hands Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore
“Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.” WholeMomentsLife IsEventsSacred Author:Vimala Thakar
“Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.” BelieveArtFormI BelieveEventsRootsTheaterSacredElites Author:Diane Paulus
“Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.” PeopleHeartLittlesEndsStoriesHomeHappensEventsSittingTablesSacredKitchenSitting Down Author:Debi Mazar