Viveka Quotes & Sayings

Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop. — Sathya Sai Baba

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon. — Patrick O'Brian

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe.
"Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak. — Lisi Harrison

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is
Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell. — Mary Augusta Ward

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga. — Frederick Lenz

In the big house opposite someone was playing the piano at Dolzhikov's. It was beginning to get dark, and stars were twinkling in the sky. Here my father, in an old top-hat with wide upturned brim, walked slowly by with my sister on his arm, bowing in response to greetings.
"Look up," he said to my sister, pointing to the sky with the same umbrella with which he had beaten me that afternoon. "Look up at the sky! Even the tiniest stars are all worlds! How insignificant is man in comparison with the universe!"
And he said this in a tone that suggested that it was particularly agreeable and flattering to him that he was so insignificant. How absolutely devoid of talent and imagination he was! — Anton Chekhov

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work. — Clifford Ross

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know. — Laurie Nadel

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear — Norman Vincent Peale

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel. — Kim Weston

God does not intend for us to predict outcomes as much as he intends for us to trust him in all circumstances. — Bryan Chapell

Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter." "We — Julia Quinn

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence. — Frederick Salomon Perls

The words you speak and think create your life. What you are saying and thinking determinate your life. — Lanni Tolls