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Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle, and threefold degree.

me; and which, as they have always been in the world, and perhaps reappear to every bard, may be both history and prophecy. 'The foundations

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.

Rud' means misery and 'dravayati' means to root out. Rudra is the destroyer of our misery.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

John Wesley said, "A sour religion is the devil's religion."[284] The sure way to have a sour religion is to believe in a sour God. We play right into the devil's hands when we fail to recognize and teach the happiness of God.

When will we learn that God doesn't give us greater wealth to increase our standard of living, but to increase our standard of giving?

The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.

Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions, while never surrendering reason.

meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain, but from being weary of pleasure.....It is not pain that has driven the West into emptiness, it has been the drowning of meaning in the oceans of our pleasures.

If, when I am restless, I am wishing there were a God, why not trade that for a belief that tells me that when I am meditating, I am God, and that the momentary excursions into humanity are nothing more than illusion?

Johann Sebastian Bach once said that the only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit.

Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers.

You're insane! I won't argue that point.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.