Parthasarathy Swami Quotes & Sayings

Reader, you have the will to overcome great confusion. Welcome to the Philosophy Corps. — Leonard Finkelman

The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it open. — Derek Thompson

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else. — Swami Parthasarathy

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy

[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate ... If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living ... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life? — Emily Matchar

Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies. — Sarah Willis

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain ... But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory. — Alfred North Whitehead

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad. — William Butler Yeats

Do not fall in love, but rise in love — Swami Parthasarathy

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses. — Swami Parthasarathy

Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings — Swami Parthasarathy

The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action. — Swami Parthasarathy

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it. — Swami Parthasarathy

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy. — Rita Mae Brown

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you. — Sam Taylor-Wood