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| 2c31ffe | Dr. Julian Huxley, famous English biologist and director of UNESCO, recently stated that Western scientists should "learn the Oriental techniques" for entering the trance state and for control of breathing. "What happens? How is it possible?" he said. An Associated Press dispatch from London, dated Aug. 21, 1948, reported: "Dr. Huxley told the new World Federation for Mental Health it might well look into the mystic lore of the East. If thi.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 8f2a915 | child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his or her individual karma. The resulting horoscope is a challenging portrait revealing his or her unalterable past, and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by women and men of intuitive wisdom: these are few. ~ ~ ~ Swami Sri Yukteswar Guru of the great Paramahansa Yogananda | Jeffrey Green | ||
| 757afeb | The ancient rishi Patanjali defines "yoga" as "control of the fluctuations of the mind-stuff." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ece6a1a | Nothing may truly be said to be a "miracle" except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. That each of us is encased in an intricately organized body, and is set upon an earth whirling through space among the stars -- is anything more commonplace? or more miraculous? Great" | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ef66245 | have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living. If that is the law of life, we must work it out in daily existence. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 506a394 | In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds, the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ea27435 | Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 3d7de84 | Where motion ceases," the Master said, "God begins." | Swami Kriyananda | ||
| 4199df5 | The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| aa53c8d | a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the people. When complaining becomes a crime, hope becomes despair. He finished | Jeff Shaara | ||
| bcf5070 | As the months passed, even the strident voices from the newspapers had begun to moderate, and the passion to put Preston's neck in a noose had become subdued. It was a relief to Adams that with the trial now scheduled for October, he had time to work with Josiah Quincy to prepare a case based on law and reason. And it meant he could spend time with his family and enjoy the wonderful peace of the farm. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 0bf5a85 | As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don't care about symbols. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 023b9b1 | My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| c62ad09 | Meade looked at Grant, and Grant turned, moved toward his tent, said quietly, "General, a moment, if you please ..." -- | civil-war-eastern-theater | Jeff Shaara | |
| 485ea6a | Across the river he could see the burnt and crushed buildings of Fredericksburg, the debris piled along the streets, the scattered ruins of people's lives, lives that were changed forever. His men had done that. Not all of it, of course. The whole corps had seemed to go insane, had turned the town into some kind of violent party, a furious storm that blew out of control, and he could not stop it. The commanders had ordered the provost guard.. | civil-war-eastern-theater futile war | Jeff Shaara | |
| f4ae7cf | Dickinson left the rostrum to applause, loud shouts of approval. Franklin was surprised, looked toward Adams, who returned the look, shook his head. The chamber was dismissed, and Franklin pushed himself slowly up out of the chair. He began to struggle a bit, pain in both knees, the stiffness holding him tightly, felt a hand under his arm. "Allow me, sir." Adams helped him up, commenting as he did so, "We have a substantial lack of backbone.. | independence war | Jeff Shaara | |
| 5b6ca4d | Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business--they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 350d2c8 | The only solution was education, offering the chance of experiencing at first hand the land and traditions of their forebears and proving that one can and should coexist with the wild, in harmony ... that one can, and should, learn how to utilize Nature without spoiling it, in | Kuki Gallmann | ||
| 8ed465e | So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| d717441 | A symbol can be defined as an object or a notion that we can perceive with our senses or grasp with our minds but in which we see something other than itself. Reason alone will not enable us to perceive the special, the universal or the eternal in a particular, temporal object. That is the task of the creative imagination, to which mystics, like artists, attribute their insights. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| b1b3a03 | In the New Testament, the Pharisees are depicted as whited sepulchres and blatant hypocrites. This is due to the distortions of first-century polemic. The Pharisees were passionately spiritual Jews. They believed that the whole of Israel was called to be a holy nation of priests. God could be present in the humblest home as well as in the Temple. Consequently, they lived like the official priestly caste, observing the special laws of purity.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 411b784 | The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ca6584d | You have a good argument, Karen. And, would you be willing to consider this from another point of view? | Alison A. Armstrong | ||
| f862ac4 | Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 311b51a | At the end of my first attempt to write a biography of Muhammad, I quoted the prescient words of the Canadian scholar Wilfred Cantwell Smith. Writing in the mid-twentieth century shortly before the Suez Crisis, he observed that a healthy, functioning Islam had for centuries helped Muslims cultivate decent values which we in the West share, because they spring from a common tradition. Some Muslims have problems with Western modernity. They h.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 674c1e2 | We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao. What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy. Indeed, it is in itself ekstasis. Theologians in all the great fa.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 9fe3a53 | The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 023cc41 | The Qur'an had begun to develop a primitive just war theory. In the steppes, aggressive warfare was praiseworthy; but in the Qur'an, self-defense was the only possible justification for hostilities and the preemptive strike was condemned.5 War was always a terrible evil, but it was sometimes necessary in order to preserve decent values, such as freedom of worship. Even here, the Qur'an did not abandon its pluralism: synagogues and churches .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 96e6bf9 | Sumer had devised the system of structural violence that would prevail in every single agrarian state until the modern period, when agriculture ceased to be the economic basis of civilization. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ff4de8b | all who benefit from the inherent violence of the state are implicated in its cruelty. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 4c309da | There is a growing intolerance of inadequate images of the Absolute. This is a healthy iconoclasm, since the idea of God has been used in the past to disastrous effect. One of the most characteristic new developments since the 1970s has been the rise of a type of religiosity that we usually call "fundamentalism" in most of the major world religions, including the three religions of God. A highly political spirituality, it is literal and int.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 3491a52 | One might well wonder how much more unanimously opposed to terror the Muslim world might have become, but for the course the United States and its allies took in the wake of 9/11. At a time when even in Tehran there were demonstrations of solidarity with America, the Bush and Blair coalition lashed out with its own violent rejoinder, a drive that would culminate in the tragically misbegotten Iraq invasion of 2003. Its | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 3307d89 | I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate. | trolling | Cory Doctorow | |
| 9a7aca7 | Dirty. Dead mice and all. And they call it a restaurant. Bah." "You are still young," Grijpstra said. "The world is held together by dirt. Don't think of it or you'll never eat again." -- | Janwillem van de Wetering | ||
| 5c44d5f | Chitat' ne vredno, no chtenie ne dolzhno prevrashchat' tvoiu zhizn' v zhizn' drugogo cheloveka. | Janwillem van de Wetering | ||
| e97bdb6 | When nothing can be done it is not a bad idea to do nothing. | Janwillem van de Wetering | ||
| e75c701 | Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings tags: blessings, gratefulness, misfortunes, reflection 826 likes Like "Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart y.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| eb03bbc | Double-clicking on his inbox, Jason noted that one of the three messages was from Suzy, aka ButterfliesInMyTummy, and his mood lifted. It was the fourth or fifth message they'd exchanged, and they were just starting to move beyond the tedious small-talk stage. He skimmed through the message, growing increasingly impatient. Suzy favoured those little face icons. The whole page was littered with them - smiley faces, sad faces, surprised faces.. | Tammy Cohen | ||
| 2bdb539 | The Nazi cipher was called Enigma, and they used a little mechanical computer called an Enigma Machine to scramble and unscramble the messages they got. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 8c480c5 | the Temple was rebuilt, but by then the religion of Israel had been marked forever by the piety of the exile. Alongside the single Temple, where blood sacrifice was celebrated, arose numerous synagogues, places for meeting and for prayer, and the dominium of the priests yielded to the growing influence of the Pharisees and Scribes, men of the book and of study. In 70 A.D., the Roman legions again destroyed the Temple. But the learned rabbi .. | Annie Cohen-Solal | ||
| d4a5bd7 | we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 23ce8bf | Few words in world literature equal the impact of this saying. All man's alibis are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his condition; no original sin; no heredity and no environment; no race, no caste, no father, and no mother; no wrong-headed education, no governess, no teacher; not even an impulse or a disposition, a complex or a childhood trauma. Man is free; but his freedom does not look like the glorious liberty of the Enlighten.. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| e97722d | All that we are is the result of what we have thought. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| b1f6b04 | As for the claim that science is a kind of "faith" because it rests on untestable assumptions, depends on authority, and so on, this involves either a deliberate or an unconscious conflation of what "faith" means in religion versus what it means in everyday life. Here are two examples of each usage: "I have faith that because I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, I will join my late wife in heaven." "I have faith that when I martyr m.. | Jerry A. Coyne |