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Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.


Robert Bly

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Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what ...
ALLEN GINSBERG The only information that brings us any use is that which we can apply in our lives
SUNDAY ADELAJA Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dan...
GEORGE W. ROMNEY The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w...
ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form ...
T. S. ELIOT Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form ...
T.S. ELIOT Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose...
SUSANNA CLARKE There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door co...
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There is safety in numbness–
there is solace
in sleep.
LANG LEAV What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu...
JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Every fresh morning brings freshness of sacred-being.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful an...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what lif...
WADE BOGGS It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.
CARRIE DAVIS Our Character, Our Future: Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny.
ALAN KEYES Life wants each of us to live on the 'A Team' -
      Wider, ever more intense Acceptance...
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethe...
MICHAEL LEUNIG How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
MARTY RUBIN The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we bec...
STEPHEN RICHARDS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.
ALARIC HUTCHINSON God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The At...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF This exhibition brings the students' conversations about photography into the Museum space, ... The ...
QUEVEDO I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper...
RAIN PHOENIX Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that ac...
EDWARD HIRSCH There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will k...
DANNY SILK Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the wo...
JACK PRELUTSKY We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnaw...
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM What stops us from making changes in our lives? Fear. Change and the unknown present us opportunitie...
CHRISTOPHER SHEA We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, ...
BERNIE SANDERS Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rat...
A. R. AMMONS I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NOAH-THE NOTEBOOK Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
GEORGE ELIOT Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well...
PETER USTINOV Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner pea...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARD The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil ...
ARISTOTLE Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...
ERICA JONG The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ...
KARL WIGGINS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer...
AULIQ-ICE Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
CHIEF SEATTLE We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E.E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
ANNE SEXTON The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely...
M. SCOTT PECK Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the nobl...
VIVEK PEREIRA Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
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ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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