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If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
- Deep Trivedi
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
- Nikolai Gogol
It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
- Scriptures
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
- Thomas Merton
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
- Deep Trivedi
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
- Peter Farb
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you keep your focus fixed on the 'witness' - the one who is watching rather
than the 'ego' - the doer...your identification with the objects, people and acts will
be severed. The root cause of all the miseries of the world is our attachment with
them.
- Deep Trivedi
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
- Dada Vaswani
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