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• Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

  John Cowper Powys

  Attitude, Philosophy, Limitless

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, pp. 27-28, 1929.

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• Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Athlete

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  Stewart Udall

  Giving, Environmental, Earth

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Scripture, Study, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Responsibility, Animal, Opportunity

  "Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

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• We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos's ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy. Another insight I really want people to consider is this: everyone has gotten this far. Everyone you meet has made it this far. Nobody is superior to anyone else from an evolutionary standpoint.

  Bill Nye

  Knowing, Space, People

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sad, Land, Claims

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.

  Ambrose

  Spiritual, Father, Heart

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• I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Cds, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Longing, Decrepit, Extremes

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

  Rama Swami

  Soul, Humanity, Asceticism

  Swami Rama (2002). “The Essence of Spiritual Life: A Companion Guide for the Seeker”, p.1, Lotus Press

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• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Garden, Soul

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• The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Atmosphere, Truth Love

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• Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Humility, Sacrifice

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• They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

  Francis Bacon

  Old Time, Scorn

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• The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pieces, Spinning, Bows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions that align you with those values, you align your personality with your soul. It's that simple to understand. Now to do it, in my experience, is hard.

  Gary Zukav

  Simple, Decision, Personality

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So as you become aware of yourself as a soul as well as a personality, the new understanding of power becomes aligning your personality with your soul, with the highest, most noble, most healthy part of yourself that you can imagine or reach for. The intentions of your soul are harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Healthy, Soul

  Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Arrogance, Doubt

  Wendell Berry (2017). “The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

  Philip Sherrard

  Environmental, World, Stewardship

  Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

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• It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.

  Wes Jackson

  Christian, Believe, Animal

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• In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Funny, Humor, Democracy

  Carl Sandburg (1943). “Home front memo”

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• Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Achievement, Reverence For Life, Direct

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.109, Oxford University Press

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• How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Journey, Mind

  "John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.

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