"It is only the sacred things that are worth touching"
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"Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life."
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
"You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes."
"Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred, into the One formless, unmanifested Life. This is why death is such an incredible opportunity. There is no transformation of human consciousness without the dissolving that death brings."
"Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people."
"Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined"
"Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man."
"There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is."
"If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!"
"There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses."
"Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine."
"Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe."
"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."
"My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!"
"A noble truth is a sacred creed."
"It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred."
"I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world."