Chidananda Swami Quotes & Sayings

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227] — Anne Lamott

There were two sorts of light in the room: one white, around the sleeping Gideon and Joab, the other black, enveloping the ghosts. — Elie Wiesel

Theory of mind postulates that, even though these cannot be directly observed, we readily impute mental states to others (and also to ourselves, since the bedrock proposal is that we understand our own mental states well enough to generalize from them). And so we constantly infer someone else's intentions, thoughts, knowledge, lack of knowledge, doubts, desires, beliefs, guesses, promises, preferences, purposes, and many, many more things in order to behave as social creatures in the world. — Karen Joy Fowler

But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez

When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope. — Blaise Pascal

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country. — Malcolm Forbes

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own. — James Joyce

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. — A.R. Ammons

While at home his heart dwelt in the silent forests of spiritual thoughts, beating in tune with eternal Pranava-Nada (mystic sound of the Eternal) of the Jnana Ganga (river of Knowledge) within himself. The seven years at home following his return from Tirupati were marked by seclusion, service, intense study of spiritual literature, self-restraint, control of the senses, simplicity in food and dress, abandonment of all comforts and practice of austerities which augmented his inner spiritual power. — SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. — Stanley Hauerwas