Sacred Quotes - Page 27

• The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

  William O. Douglas

  Struggle, Power, Conformity

  "Go East, Young Man: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, March 12, 1974.

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• The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.

  Joe Greene

  Places You Go, Week, Zone

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Art Is, Immorality

  "The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin". Book by Albert Edward Elsen, p. 131, July 1, 1985.

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• Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Ambition, Unique

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.9, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Ambition, Practice

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

  Phil Cousineau

  Pilgrim, Contact, Direct

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.92, Conari Press

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• What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

  Phil Cousineau

  Heart, Awe And Wonder, Evoke

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.30, Conari Press

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• But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey.

  Phil Cousineau

  Believe, Journey, Waiting

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• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Deception, Deceit

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• The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

  Stephen Fry

  London, Royal, Common

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.551, Penguin

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• The laws of physics that we regard
  as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything
  but.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Law, Physics, Regard

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.298, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Wise, Simple, Men

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

  Keri Hulme

  Eye, Hands, Sacred Things

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press

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• Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

  Paul Krassner

  Cows, Irreverence, Sacred Cows

  Paul Krassner (2011). “One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist”, p.22, Seven Stories Press

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• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Pride, Thinking, Order

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• Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Writing, Vocabulary, Vanity

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Yukteswar Giri, 1946.

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• I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pain, War, Believe

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• This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. All of your problems, all of your conflicts, all of your difficulties in creating a life on your planet of peace and joy are based in your failure to understand this simple instruction, and to follow it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Creating, Joy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2006). “Meditations from Conversations with God”, p.136, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

  John Wycliffe

  Doctors, Sacred Scripture, Holy

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• There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Wall, Book, Epic

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• My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!

  Che Guevara

  Crazy, Fall, Fighting

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• Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

  Jean Houston

  Journey, Practice, Psychology

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fire, Mouths, Might

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Tears, Salt

  "Sand and Foam". Book by Kahlil Gibran, 1926.

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• I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kings, Taken, Blessing

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