Upadesa Quotes & Sayings

If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss. — Kendare Blake

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history. — Garry Kasparov

Behind every fortune there is a crime. — Honore De Balzac

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate. — Iannis Xenakis

You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors. — Anne Wojcicki

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life
he is a man indeed! — H. P. Blavatsky

Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn't want to dismiss. Not tonight. — Katherine McIntyre

Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone. — Ramana Maharshi

What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous? — Nenia Campbell