#sacred

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#reflection #sacred #secret #shine #soul

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#sacred-space #space #yoga

[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#meditation #morning #sacred #yoga

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that? ↗

— Beth Johnson

#meditation #releasing #sacredness #self #self-help

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#ask #bit #came #did #even

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him. ↗

— Paul Begala

#been #campaign #clinton #compact #connection

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

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

#being #i #i can #like #live

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#body #human #human body #sacred #thing

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

#book #come #consider #could #hope