“Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.” ChoicesUniverseSacredDeliberateHydrogenSacred Things Book:Ascending Source: Ascending
“Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.” WorldDoeMadeUseOrderUniverseHeavenWishTermTeachTeachingSacredIntentionScriptureAliensMakeupCosmologySacred Scripture Author:Pope John Paul II
“The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.” BodyUniverseForgetDangerousCreationSacred Author:May Sarton
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.” MenWorldHumansWellsTwoMatterHappensWould BeEarthHappinessSufferingUniverseMistakeTeachFateThis WorldSonSpringDiscoverySacredAbsurdEchoesExhaustedPreferenceRemarksInseparableDissatisfactionMyth Of Sisyphus Author:Albert Camus
“The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.” MindMayStatesFormLyingUniverseVisionObjectsOne DayAbsolutesSacredPerceiveEmptinessUniquenessBondageTrue NatureElevating Author:Philip Kapleau