Sacred Places Quotes

• There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

  Wendell Berry

  Sacred, Gathering Places, Eco

  Wendell Berry (2006). “Given: Poems”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Space

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• The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Beautiful, Heaven, And Love

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• The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

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• If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  War, People, Sacred

  "Silver Surfer : Requiem". Book by J. Michael Straczynski, 2007.

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• The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

  John Dufresne

  Character, Childhood, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Use, Sacred, Advantage

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• If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

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  Ram Dass

  Struggle, Being Positive, Needs

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Song, Nature, Needs

  Joseph Bruchac (1999). “No borders: new poems”, Holy Cow Press

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• Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

  Phil Cousineau

  Mean, Journey, Finding Yourself

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• . . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Agony, Joy, Sacred

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Knowing, Darkness

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Nature, Gardening

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

  Daniel Quinn

  Views, Crow, Special

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• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

  Saraha

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

  Robert Adams

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

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• 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 flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Space, Forever, Devil

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• 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.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Lakes, Tree, Sacred

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• The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.

  Diana L. Eck

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

  Alanis Morissette

  Israel, Sacred, Ends

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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything -- people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether -- the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.

  Carlos Barrios

  Animal, People, Giving

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Morning, Time, Stress

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue. To say that the world is a sacred place is to make a statement about values, not facts. It’s a statement about what you mean by ‘sacred,’ just as ‘Money can’t buy happiness’ is a statement about what you mean by ‘happiness.’ To put it all very simply, animism isn’t a belief system, it’s a value system.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mean, Issues, World

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