Best 760 quotes in «sacred quotes» category

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

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.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.

Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

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

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be a Benedict Arnold is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing 'put separate'. The temple should exist exactly in the middle of the market, and all distinctions between the sacred and the secular should be dissolved.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.