Tantraloka Abhinavagupta Quotes & Sayings

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams? — Johanna Konta

Process is not a substitute for skill. — Jim Highsmith

When you live for yourself you are merely surviving; when you live for others you are really living. — Debasish Mridha

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
[Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] — Horace

We are fiddle, fork, and spoon,
We are dancing with the moon,
If you'd like to steal a kiss from us,
You'd better steal one soon! — Elizabeth Gilbert

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. — Decimus Laberius

According to Abhinavagupta, a yogin who is established in the understanding and experience of supreme non-dualism, sees only one reality shining in all mutually opposite entities like pleasure and pain, bondage and liberation, sentience and insentience, and so on, just as an ordinary person sees both a ghata and a kumbha as only one thing (a pot) expressed through different words (Tantraloka, 11.19). — Balajinnatha Pandita

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else. — Henry Ward Beecher

Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no on any pain but herself.
- Pride & Prejudice — Jane Austen