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These words are not my own and I take no credit for them. I share them here as a resource for anyone seeking personal growth or as source material for their own creative expansion of the collective.
We must learn to respect the irreducibility of subjectivity and the irreducibility of the sacred and unique in every object and person.
Zachary Stein, Education in a Time Between Worlds, Bright Alliance, USA, 2019, p. 181
A numinous experience is a powerful moving feeling of well-being accompanied by a sense that there’s a positive benign force behind the universe, as well as within yourself.
Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Azure Coyote, USA, 2013, p. 39
Rebelling against outmoded beliefs and traditions can be very scary, but you will never be happy or fulfilled until you find the sacred within you. Because that's where it lives - in you and everyone.
Jean Benedict Raffa, The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes, Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit, Atglen, PA, 2020, p. 177
Others could light other fires in other caves, but these fires were profane and did not concern me. My fire alone was living and had an unmistakable aura of sanctity.
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Random House, 1989, p. 20
In the ancient world, every city was a holy city.
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth, Canongate, New York, NY, 2005, p. 61
… we are finding that the traditional ways of experiencing the sacred and discovering an ultimate meaning in our lives are either difficult or impossible. As a result, a void has been an essential part of the modern experience.
Karen Armstrong, Buddha, Penguin, USA, 2004, p. xxviAuthor
We have stripped all things of their mystery and numinosity; nothing is holy any longer.
Carl Jung, (editors Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz), Man and His Symbols, Doubleday Inc., Garden City, NY, 1964, p. 94
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