Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
"Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary"
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
-Epictetus
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hanuman is the breath of Rama, the breath of God. God is not far away from us but as close as our breath. Symbolically Hanuman represents the breath, our constant companion and aid along the spiritual path.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
