“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.” BitsPiecesBuddhismMethodSacredPocketsMatureFollowersHinduismPatheticDerrida Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.” BookReasonHousePiecesFeetDogSacredNo ReasonShelvesFurniturePorcelain Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.” KnowsWantShouldTryingBookSelfHelpingTodayTogetherWishSupportPiecesMomBirthStandardsDeserveEmpowermentLaborFoundationSacredLaysMemoirMake SenseGentlePregnancyDozenPregnantSelf KnowledgeJournalEnlighteningHolisticWere Pregnant Author:Mayim Bialik
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.” PeopleSaidCountryYoungSongFatherMistakeRecordsPiecesCenturyGrewPaperGrew UpSacredNotesPianoRepeatsTunesHeritagePeasantsDon't ChangeChoirFiddleGospel Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.” YearsLooksI CanStoriesBigsSecretPiecesFashionClothesHollywoodHotSacredInternationalBoxesEnormousSpotsPunkSiteCostumesGarmentsStory Of My LifeArchivesCoutureHangersHigh Fashion Author:Lady Gaga
“What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.” ShouldFirstsHumansIdeasStoriesSchoolRememberFormViewsPiecesHigh SchoolDoctorsSacredPoint Of ViewHuman LifeFixedAbortionPro LifeSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:John H Richardson
“I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensPlayStoriesPiecesChangedPaintingSacredStorytellingTransformedWriting Poetry Author:Karla Souza
“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” StatesValuesEasyParentBornUnitedNumbersCitiesBehindsUnited StatesPiecesLandNew YorkBirthRemainsSacredTrainZeroNew York CityRebirthWombWireSomewhere ElsePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanalsStarting Anew Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.” WorldWayCoursesHeavenWaterPiecesLandFitSacredMeetingsGolfPebblesLand And WaterPebble Beach Author:Johnny Miller
“Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.” HumansDoeSelfOrderUniverseIndividualQualityPiecesMysteryCreationIntegrityAspectSacredReverenceInteriorsNuminous Author:Thomas Berry
“We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.” WaterPiecesFlowRiversSacredWoodsStreamsTiedDandelionsInternational PeaceWorld Peace DayInternational Peace DayFlowing WaterSacred Texts Author:Malala Yousafzai
“If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.” IfsWellsHeartShowsCareChoicesPiecesSacrificeJudgingPrayingFitHolyHighestPerformancesMiracleTownsGratefulSacredWineDuesNobleShopsPriestsThievesLiftingStatesmenDiscerningCellarsDeliberationPalateGrateful HeartDiscreetBest WineRochesterBurglary Author:John Wilmot
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."” KnowsMenWorldWholeCertainSimpleExistenceClearPiecesWiseTraditionSacredWestEastThis LifePriestsFormulasHinduismGlancesMysticBrahminsAbove And Below Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your god is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer.” WayWritingWellsSecretPiecesLettersSacredFedsCleaningSlateHypnosisAuden Author:Martin Amis