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| Quotes |
| Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Einstein |
| Without darkness, there are no dreams. |
| Carpe noctem! (Seize the night!) |
| Tell me one more time Your flawless philosophy; I forgot to take notes. Help me, I'm a heathen Ignorant of your theology; And you're so pious you should know. -Tilt, 'Pious', Viewers Like You |
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| So it goes. -Kurt Vonnegut |
| For every minute you are angry, You lose sixty seconds of happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I feel like a color-blind Muslim. -Me (Don't ask why...) |
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| God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion. One may eat a cake with icing either straight or sidewise. It will taste sweet either way. As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways. Bow down and worship where others kneel, for where so many have adored the kind Lord must manifest himself, for he is all mercy. People partition off their lands by means of boundaries, but no one can partition off the all-encompassing sky overhead. The indivisible sky surrounds all and includes all. So it is in ignorance that people say, "My religion is the only one, my religion is the best." When a heart is illuminated by true knowledge, it knows that above all these wars of sects and sectarians presides the one indivisible, eternal, all-knowing bliss. - Ramakrishna |
| Bhuddism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message, people came to him asking what he was. No "Who are you?" but "What are you?" "Are you a god?" they asked. "No." "An angel?" "No." "A saint?" "No." "Then what are you?" Bhudda answered, "I am awake." - Illustrated World Religions, Huston Smith |