“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.” WritingBookNextSacredSwearingProfaneProfanity Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.” WantBelieveDifferentStatesSeemsFacesMovingDesireNextI BelieveCreativityDivineEvolutionAngrySacredSaintDrivenActivismRageCollectivesSinnerLeapVery StrongQuantumJustifiedGoing To WorkWant UHierarchyBeing ThereTangledProfaneDiabolicalQuantum LeapDifferent Faces Author:Deepak Chopra
“If you had a personal trainer, you would probably eat him. I know that in every fat person, there's a skinny person inside, but you could have all the season's contestants of America's Next Top Model in you. I hope I get reincarnated as your feet. That way, you'd never see my face again... Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have insulted you. Because in my country, cows are sacred.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsCountryAmericaFacesNextFeetModelsSeasonsSacredSorryFatsCowsI'm SorrySkinnyTrainersInsultedContestantsTop Model Author:George Lopez
“Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.” YearsFirstsWellsCountrySometimesGovernmentPurposeNightFightingNextGreaterFailingEconomicDutySucceedRegardManagementSacredRoundsMaking MoneyTriumphDesignerShopsFeedingAll NightNext YearJunkAnnualsElbowsFrenzyQueuesShoppersLandfillsStampede Author:George Monbiot
“Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.” IfsMatterLightBeautifulNightNextDarkEmotionDarknessFlowerSacredShiningCalmWoundsHealGet BetterSpokesSincerityEgyptMudLiliesLight And Dark Book:The Guardian Source: The Guardian
“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.” ScienceNextNatureNaturalCenturyEvolutionLateBlessedSacredChainsPhrases Author:Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
“[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.” ThinkingNeedsShouldMayMadeDonePhilosophyGodHandsTogetherMovingScienceNextCausesWatchesTeachEffectsBalanceThousandSpringSacredMovedPlantDenyScriptureWheelsContradictionMakersEnginesSacred Scripture Author:Nehemiah Grew
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.” WorldWantMeanGovernmentUsedChoicesEvilNextFreedomLibertyDivineMouthsUnderstoodSacredConfusionAppropriateRulersAdoration Author:Oliver Ellsworth
“Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.” KnowsWorldYearsBelieveMayRealEndsCountryMatterStatesReasonFactsSeemsNextSocialCenturyCitizensCircumstancesAuthorityHundredSacredUnityPermanentPhrasesTemporaryOne TimeArtificialArrangementsOptimist20th CenturyFashionableObsoleteAccommodationsAll State Author:Strobe Talbott
“You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.” KnowsEarthDiesNextLeftStarsWaterMemoriesWhiteSkyFrontsDrinkApproachSpringDaughterLet MeSacredAddressesLakesCoveredThirstDwellingCypressesCool Water Author:Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
“Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.” WorldWayFeelsHeartMatterMomentsChoicesNextPracticeHonestListeningConversationEssentialsSacredFruitIntimateRight ThingWho We AreThat MomentLifelongFertile Author:Wayne Muller
“The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a tantric text. In opening with a discussion of the three aims of ancient Hindu life – dharma, artha and kama – Vatsyayana's purpose is to set kama, or enjoyment of the senses, in context. Thus dharma or virtuous living is the highest aim, artha, the amassing of wealth is next, and kama is the least of three.” ArtUsedPurposeThreeNextSexReligiousWealthHighestAimSacredAncientSensesOpeningDiscussionEnjoymentWorking ItVirtuousDharmaManuals Author:Indra Sinha
“People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.” PeopleRunningNextSoundWaterNaturalBirthLaborSacredStreamsBathroomBathsBirthingSpas Author:Michel Odent
“We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.” IfsHumansMayWholeUseNextConsciousnessStepsEvolutionAreasEssenceMiracleSacredPrisonPlantExplorationExpansionHonoredDemonstratingUse Of Time Author:Graham Hancock
“I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.” FeelsSongNextSacredFamiliarEaseBalancedGeometry Author:Jason Mraz