E. F. Schumacher Quotes

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

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.'

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.