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The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. -- Bhagawan Nityananda
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. -- Wendell Berry
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs. -- Joseph Bruchac
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. -- Saraha
What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art. -- William Zinsser
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places. -- Marianne Fredriksson
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain. -- Robert Adams
Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world. -- Aurora Levins Morales
The bandstand is a sacred place. -- Wynton Marsalis
The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world. -- David A. Bednar
What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour -- Alanis Morissette
If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen. -- Joseph Campbell
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film. -- Susan Stroman
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. -- George Eliot
Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light. -- Richard G. Scott
If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. -- Ram Dass
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself. -- Phil Cousineau
I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all. -- Sam Keen
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood. -- John Dufresne
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts. -- Wendell Berry
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story. -- N. Scott Momaday
We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity. -- David Suzuki
But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places. -- Lian Tanner
Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there. -- Dave Davies
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. -- Chief Seattle
To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place. -- Debi Mazar
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. -- Ward McAllister
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. -- Lewis Mumford
The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites. -- Winona LaDuke
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance. -- Kimbra
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. -- David Josiah Brewer
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. -- William Robertson Smith
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity. -- Wayne Dyer
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings. -- Robert Englund
As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism. -- David Gregory

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