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Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!
The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.
See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.
"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime.
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)
You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.
Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!
Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)