“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.” SelfMy OwnVirtueGraceBearsMiracleSacredAffectionWitnessLiftsTendernessEmergenceSanctifyImprobability Author:Ursula Goodenough
“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.” IfsPersonsGivenMemoriesMy OwnPleasureChildhoodTalentFashionPoetProductsSourceHigherSorrowShadowRegardSacredDearPossessionTemptationAliensDelicateInclinationSpoilHigher Power Author:Hermann Hesse
“In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.” WritingSaidEndsPoliticalMy OwnCareersAudienceTeachingTerribleTraditionSacredReachingLoadFrozenVirginiaConcentratingTenureWoolfLecturing Author:Michael Parenti
“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesWholeArtistNaturalMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageLike YouSacredNakedPerformersDifferent WorldsSoulfulMy Own WorldSacred Places Author:Justin Nozuka
“...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.” IfsMeanSchoolYoungDesireBeliefTermChallengesMy OwnDoubtEnlightenmentEmptySacredMereCriminalsAcceptedMeaningfulGrantedDataOfficialsAssumptionMediocrityInstructionCowsConventionalSubversiveIndoctrinationInstillSacred CowsThings We Take For Granted Author:Bertrand Russell
“If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.” IfsDoeI CanMy OwnInfluencePoetSacredHearingHonestly Author:Grace Cavalieri
“Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.” WorldI CanPhilosophyBodySpiritualSpiritualityMy OwnInspiringSacredMedicineProfoundSensesPilgrimageSomaSacred Places Author:Saraha
“Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body” LifeWellsBodyMy OwnSunMoonRiversSacredBuddhistTemplesPilgrimage Author:Saraha
“It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.” KnowsWellsArtGivenStuffRealizingMy OwnDiseaseDestructionSacredMartial ArtsDisabilityJunkMy Own LifeDown The RoadPrematurePrecious ThingsCitadels Author:Ralph Maxwell
“The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.” IfsThinkingKnowsSoulFormMy OwnPrayerSeeingPleaseGoodnessHighestSacredProfitListsThanksMidstPensHis LoveClingingShutters Author:Ann Voskamp
“I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"” BodyTodayFatherMy OwnFashionSonSacredAbortionProtestAdmirationWombTombsCalvary Author:Neal A. Maxwell