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• When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

  John Locke

  Degrees, Doe, Should

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Essence

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• The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Veils, Able, Access

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Reading, Struggle

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• It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Country, Book

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

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• As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Children, Fighting

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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• Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

  Rumi

  Heart, Errors, Mirrors

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Blood, Order

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Church, Devil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

  Eugene Green

  Spiritual, Thinking, Relation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Moving, Struggle, Different Experiences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Way, Spirit, Illusion

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is, Given, Shows

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• It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

  Misty Upham

  Sacredness Of Life, Elders

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• I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Knowing, Heaven

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• Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.

  Simon Schama

  Funny, Animal, Thinking

  "Preview", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Isis, Abuse

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• The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Together, Principles, Hawaii

  Paul Pearsall (1996). “The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, to Work, to Play-- Life in the Balance”, p.54, Hunter House

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• The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living faith of the Christian community - a faith always aware of its rights vis-a-vis those who do not share the faith - ensures respect for this sacredness

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Rights, Community

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Powerful, Selfish, Years

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Energy, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.266, Harvard University Press

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