Sacred Quotes

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

~ Carolyn Baker

Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

~ Carolyn Baker

The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person in our lives is an opportunity to pass on the gifts we have received. The death of the old paradigm and all of the trappings of industrial civilization will providespace to forge new values, new relationships, and minimize, if not completely obliterate, the concept of debt from human consciousness.

~ Carolyn Baker

Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself iscrucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championingjustice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If theshadow is not recognized and dealt with, it will dominate an individual or . . . community, resulting in untold suffering.

~ Carolyn Baker

A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

~ Wes Adamson

If we can practice opening to the crises in our personal lives as teaching moments, as evolutionary stepping stones, we will be far better prepared emotionally and spiritually for the trauma that collapse will foist on us and everyone around us.

~ Carolyn Baker

Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.

~ Carolyn Baker

If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom ofparadox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all ofthe mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong questions.

~ Carolyn Baker

You are free. Your mind belongs to you. Your thoughts are yours. Honor the sacred territory of your freedom and individuality.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There’s a dream I keep having,“ Sheridan whispered into the telephone. “The dream has always been the same—until tonight.”“And what happened tonight?” asked Lil’ John.Sheridan hesitated, his words stumbling out in tentative phrases: “The man in my dream . . . he spoke to me for the first time . . . he told me of a sacred gift that had been lost . . . a gift that could save the world.”“Your dream,” John urged gently. “Is the gods conspiring to give you freedom, just like the elders sang that night in the Sundance ceremony:”When worlds collideThere sounds a tollingA call to riseAnd seize the momentThe gods conspireTo give us freedomWhen worlds collideThe journey has begunSheridan pulled at the collar of his t-shirt, Lil’ John’s words suffocating him. Pushing back from the precipice of dread, Sheridan strained to speak, his husky words weak and staggering: “What are you saying?”“Your search for the sacred gift has already begun . . .

~ Phillip R. White

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

~ Cassandra Clare

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

~ Dennis Lehane

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.

~ Mircea Eliade

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

~ Rohinton Mistry

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

~ S.m. Stirling

Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret

~ Steven Redhead

...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

~ John Geddes

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

~ Dillon Burroughs

...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...

~ John Geddes

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call history. Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.

~ Gerald Hausman

You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with being in love.

~ Shanora Williams

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The kitchen is a sacred space.

~ Marc Forgione

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

~ Rob Sheffield

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

~ Paul Gillmor

The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.

~ Kim Jong-Un

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

~ Russell M. Nelson

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

~ William Robertson Smith

The body is a sacred garment.

~ Martha Graham

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

~ Christy Turlington

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

~ Ben Carson

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

~ Martin Van Buren

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

~ Giotto Di Bondone

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

~ Jonathan Mayhew

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

~ Victor Hugo