Atman Upanishads Quotes & Sayings

For example, from nouns to verbs to aspects of grammar, we each store language in different areas, recruiting different regions for different components. — John Medina

I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely. — Birdy

DON'T BOTHER with a lot of make-up. People only see the general impression. You look fine as long as you don't scare the horses. — Marcia K. Matthews

Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within ... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, "the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad — Huston Smith

Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: "Your soul is the whole world." It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman. There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees. — Hermann Hesse

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff

How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great. — Bill Bennot

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing ... then you are a writer. — Rainer Maria Rilke

My philosophy is food and cooking should be fun but, never a chore! — Adam Pittaway-Hay

These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret. — Jess Walter