Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

Every day is spectacular sacred time.

When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what’s left behind do not change,’ wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend...

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The...

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the...

None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see whatdifference we made, but living out...

Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him.

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred...

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” – The...

Your search for the sacred gift has already begun . . .

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

I love today, it is a sacred time.

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel...

Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred...

Life itself is sacred.

…how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads – your patter, my patten – I explore the liturgy of your words…

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to...

Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret

The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath...

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its...

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you.

All times are connected. Treasure each moment.

…you know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore – I made you sacred offering you my words…

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that’s an abomination.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and...

Your calling is to be faithful to God where you are, and in doing this all work is sacred, spiritual, and worthy of your full attention and energy. When you get to work, you are...

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her...

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well...

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the...

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it’s not how well you know the book, it’s how well you’re in alignment with the author.

When those lips engulfed my head, I said to myself later, ‘nothing else will ever touch this scalp again’. I couldn’t help it, though. I lathered sunscreen on it unthinkingly the next day before I...

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

…I’ve marked our sacred place not with stones – I’ve put it my art to keep it safe…

Too caught up with being in love.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

Children are sacred beings.