Mayan People Quotes & Sayings

There I lay with my belly to the sky and with the rain soaking into me like I was a desert. — Doris Piserchia

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. — Georg Simmel

The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values. — Rigoberta Menchu

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain. — Sharon Salzberg

The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while. — Gregory Benford

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else ... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else. — Rajneesh

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. — Sammy Hagar

(A name, at last. "Say it loud and there's music playing. Say it soft and it's almost like praying.") — Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in. — Sarah Addison Allen

Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. — Carlos Barrios