Cause and effect Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“What is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures)? It is that in which the mind, speech and body become one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“If there are vishayas (objects of sense pleasure) in the mind, they are all vishayas of the pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body…

— Dada Bhagwan

“If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects of pleasures that take one away from…

— Dada Bhagwan

“In this world, if you like anything other than the Self (The Soul), it becomes vishaya – object of pleasure. From the moment you…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Self is nirvishayi (without any sense pleasure); penance-renouncing are vishayas (sense pleasure). No vishaya has the Self (Soul) in it; Self is only in…

— Dada Bhagwan

“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”

— R.D. Laing

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

— Karen Horney

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it…

— Clifford Geertz

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged…

— R. D. Laing

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

— Jean Dubuffet

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

— George Santayana

“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with…

— Bertrand Russell