The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.
In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.