Max Stirner Quotes

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never happen through effort, and there are things which will never happen through effortlessness. All that is mundane happens through effort; all that is worldly happens through effort. And all that is sacred, other-worldly, happens through effortlessness.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.