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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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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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• Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  World, Imagine, Ifs

  Stephanie Dowrick (2011). “Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
  and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
  a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
  is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
  free.

  Ted Loder

  Laughter, Prayer, Fun

  Ted Loder (2004). “Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger”, p.73, Augsburg Books

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• I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Overcoming, Care

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.251, Penguin

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• Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Blessed, Heart, Listening

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Land

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• Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Stories, Way, Visualization

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.143, UNM Press

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Love is a sacred mystery.
  To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
  But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Love Is, Forever

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Psychics, Gifts Of The Spirit, Faithful Servants

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• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Shapes

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Perfection, Path

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• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.144, Vintage

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• If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Self, Desert, Remember

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.148, Vintage

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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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• Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Voyages, Spirit, Painting

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• And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Native American, Circles

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

  Gayle Forman

  Hate, Promise, Blame

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  Abraham Maslow

  Laughing, Peak Experiences, Stills

  "Relax - You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left : Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work". Book by Loretta LaRoche, p. xvii, 1998.

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• Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

  Starhawk

  Stories, Actors, World

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• My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Heart, Eagles

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Earth, Celebration, Moments

  "The Witch of Portobello: A Novel (P.S.)". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2006.

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• A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Needs, Reverence For Life

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