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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. We kill to eat, we cut down trees to build our homes, we exploit other people and the earth. Sacrifice - of nature, of the interests of others, even of our earlier selves - appears to be an inescapable part of our condition, the unavoidable price of all our achievements. A successful ritual is one that addresses both aspects of our predicament, recalling us to the shamefulness of our deeds at the same time it celebrates what the poet Frederick Turner calls "the beauty we have paid for with our shame." Without the double awareness pricked by such rituals, people are liable to find themselves either plundering the earth without restraint or descending into self-loathing and misanthropy. Perhaps it's not surprising that most of us today bring one of those attitudes or the other to our conduct in nature.


Michael Pollan


#humanity #nature #ritual #sacrifice #attitude

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.


Gustavo Gutiérrez


#nature

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.


Stephenie Meyer


#love #self-sacrifice #death

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.


Richelle Mead


#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #death

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.


S. Kelley Harrell


#sacred-space #spirituality #nature

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?


W. Somerset Maugham


#christianity #god #religion #sacrifice #religion

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what i wish to surround myself with. Sacrifice your time and energy into something positive instead of the negative and you will see that change around you.


Lorin Morgan-Richards


#love #pawn #sacrifice #war #art

...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...


John Geddes


#persons #respect #sacred #wise-words #respect

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

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.


Richelle Mead


#last-sacrifice #lissa-dragomir #women






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