“Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.” MenDoneTakenSubjectsSacredGravesBarbarians Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.” PeopleWayDifficultAcceptingTakenInvolvedSacredTraditionalOrganizedSacred Texts Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.” FirstsCertainDarkTakenAchieveSacredUnionsCandidatesRitualBeatenMidnightGuruIntercourseCemeteryHashish Book:Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.” PeopleWayBookRealitySpiritualSpiritTakenShareRedSacredPhotographChiefsIndianInadequateOld TimeTimerOld Timers Author:Thomas Yellowtail
“If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?” IfsBookTogetherLeftTakenConstitutionSacredOur FamilyFamily LifeStatutes Author:Benjamin Harrison
“Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.” WritingArtAmericaFormArtistTakenMusicianSacredPilgrimageSacred Places Author:William Zinsser
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.” YearsRealMightChoicesFightingSleepWalksStruggleTakenTroublePaidPraiseSacredAbundanceGatesWombDoorwaysOur ChoicesSquad Author:Marge Piercy