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Madeleine L'Engle
"There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation."
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
"The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
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"A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter"
— Gary Thomas
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"In this moment, everything is sacred."
— Ariel
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"The worst word in our language is 'masturbation' ...which means to abuse. Starhawk says, 'Throw it out.' Self-pleasure is the word...We can self-pleasure ourselves--you won't go blind, you might see a lot!"
— Matthew Fox (The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine)
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"So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless"
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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"Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become..."
— David Deida
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Jim Fergus
""...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church."
— Jim Fergus (The Wild Girl: A Novel)
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"The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
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— Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thomas S. Monson
"May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one."
— Thomas S. Monson (Pathways to Perfection: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson)
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