“The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.”

“To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.”

“All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples of India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with it's own intelligence. Then when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place.”

“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”

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

“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.”