A Quote by Thomas Merton

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Thomas Merton

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Alchemist Artist Combined Functions Hermit Inherited Pilgrim Priest Prophet Today

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Thomas Merton
American - Author
January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

Genesis P-Orridge

Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Judy Grahn

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Robert A. Heinlein

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in contrast to Christianity, where during the Eucharist, a priest has to officiate and the priest functions as a link - at least in Catholic Christianity - between the laity and God.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Barry Commoner

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Arthur Middleton

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

Edgar Wright

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

Edward Snowden

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.