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If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

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?

I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative! If you can smoke meditatively, it is perfectly beautiful. If it stops by being meditative, that too is perfectly beautiful. Life is sacred.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

It shows that there's a huge consciousness in the world around sacred sites. But I don't know if we've reached the seven percent, if that's what it takes. I just don't know these things. There are definitely some unusual circumstances spreading today that make me feel more and more that we have already made a specific transition.

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.