The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
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And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time..
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Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret
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.. What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are..
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Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
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.. 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.
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.. You know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words..
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.. How are you sacred to me? Your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..
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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
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