Hinduism Quotes - Page 11

• You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Denial, Brahma

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• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

  William James

  Art, Law, Culture Religion

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• Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Oneness, Perfection

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• The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Tiny, Aspects Of Life

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• After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Long, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Real, Mistake

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• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Fleeting, Body

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• There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Years, People

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• I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, People, Hatred

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Islamic, Reality, India

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• Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

  Reza Aslan

  Peace, Mean People, Religion

  "Reza Aslan: Maher's "Facile" Generalizations Of Islam The Definition Of Bigotry". CNN Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Realization, Liberation

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• The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Light, Mind

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• Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spring, Buddhism, Talking

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - I'll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I'll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Tattoo, Country, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fate, Punishment, Suffering

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• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, East, Mixtures

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• Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Krishna, Courses

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• Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Average, Stopping, Realizing

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• Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Mind, Arjuna

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• Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Trying, Different

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• Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Isis, Shiva, Goddess

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• That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

  Satish Kumar

  Real, Buddhism, India

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org.

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• Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Years, Kali

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