{"quotes":[{"text":"We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ailment","ancient-egyptians","ancient-medicine","awakened","awakened-heart","blue-lily","cure","cures","doctors","east","egypt","egyptians","elderly","enlightenment","euphoria","flower","flowers","fluids","genetic-memory","genetics","health","healthcare","heart","illness","illnesses","imagery-sacred","increaes-memory","lily","lotus","lotus-flower","medicine","memory","memory-loss","metaphysics","orient","papyrus","philosophy","physicians","pills","power","power-of-scent","power-of-smell","remedy","rosemary","sacred-lotus","scent","scripture","smell","smelling","tea","temples","tombs","treatment","vibrations","wine","wisdom"],"id":3575,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.","author":"Kentetsu Takamori","tags":["buddhism","japan","religion","temples"],"id":39763,"author_id":"Kentetsu+Takamori"},{"text":"A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind - regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify the Creator - as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["burn","churches","color","creator","divine-mansions","faith","god","harm","home","love","loving","man","mansion","mosques","peace","religion","religious","synagogues","temple","temples","truth"],"id":68652,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24).","author":"Swami Satchidananda","tags":["churches","prayer","purpose-of-prayer","temples"],"id":105935,"author_id":"Swami+Satchidananda"},{"text":"I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson.","author":"Dave Barry","tags":["buddhism","buddhists","humor","japanese","japanese-religion","junio","moral","obsession","pat-robertson","preachiness","reincarnation","religious-people","reverend","sense","temples","united-states"],"id":118994,"author_id":"Dave+Barry"},{"text":"The groves were God's first temples.","author":"William C. Bryant","tags":["god","first","temples "],"id":122928,"author_id":"William+C.+Bryant"},{"text":"Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","all","at","been","before","bridge","captain","examples","few","graying","had","him","his","home","large","man","mention","navigation","night","of","rated","remembered","shortly","strange","temples","that","the","through","travels","uncle","universe","vast","worthy"],"id":132568,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.","author":"Timothy J. Keller","tags":["keller","religion","spirituality","temples"],"id":136683,"author_id":"Timothy+J.+Keller"},{"text":"Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in silence, watching our steps, heads bowed. We were in a temple.","author":"Richard Payment","tags":["temples","trees"],"id":159728,"author_id":"Richard+Payment"},{"text":"Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["dynamic","heaven","heavens","holy-books","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life-and-religion","life","life-and-sayings","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","religion","religion","religion","religions","temples","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":205078,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}