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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,…
— Unknown Author
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Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!
— Dennis Miller
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We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life…
— Pat Robertson
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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking…
— Alan Watts
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Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu?…
— Ricky Gervais
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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also…
— Alan Watts
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The glorious Vishnu is the sole refuge of mortals. He is Infinite Light, Love and Wisdom. He resides in the hearts of…
— Sivananda
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We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is…
— Frederick Lenz
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Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the…
— Frederick Lenz
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It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God,…
— Alan Watts
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
— Yann Martel
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