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Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Means | Resolution |
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it.
The faults of the soul are like body injuries: some care we take to heal, the scar still looks, and they are in danger at any time to reopen.
It has become a conviction with me that psychology may in the long run do much to change the conception of the fundamental nature of the religious life, which, on the whole, is now too generally made a matter of doctrine. It is too intellectual At the doors of most churches one is met by required beliefs in a particular conception of God, in a speculative theory about the divinity of Christ, definite ideas concerning sin and salvation, the efficacy of ordinances, and the claims of supernatural revelation. What people are really seeking is access to refreshing fountains of life, sources of strength and guidance. They crave association with people and institutions which may convey to them a sense of what is most worthwhile in life and what may furnish impulsion toward real and enduring values. They know pretty well what those values are when allowed to let their own deepest desires express themselves.
Beginning | Divinity | Excitement | History | Meaning | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Revelation | Science | Temper | Theology | Thought | Work | Thought |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
From the vaikrita form of individuation proceeds the eleven-fold set characterized by goodness (sattva); from the bhutadi form of individuation proceed the subtle elements (tanmatras). In this, darkness (tamas) dominates. Both of these proceed from taijasa ahankara, in which rajas dominates.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Non-discriminativeness and the rest are proved by the existence of the three gunas and by the non-existence of these in their absence. The unmanifest is demonstrated by the effect possessing the properties of the cause.
Complacency | Enjoyment | Luck | Means | Nature | Time | Luck |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
The subtle bodies, the bodies born of mother and father, together with the great elements, are three kinds of specific objects. Among these, the subtle are lasting and those born of parents are perishable.
Consideration | Science |
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and flimsy. He felt a little sorry for the occupants of such a place--and then asked himself who in this world had a temporary shelter.
Better | Cause | Enough | Generosity | Guidance | Husband | Little | Magnanimity | Man | Means | Memory | Patience | Quiet | Resentment | Wife | Will | Woman | Guidance | Guilty |
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars, - not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm is past. It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Fear | Scepticism | Science | Truth | Universe |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Possessed of this self-knowledge, and the proliferation of Nature having ceased (owing to its withdrawal from its seven modes), the Self stands apart and at ease, like a spectator.
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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Nature by herself binds herself by seven modes, and by means of one mode (knowledge), releases herself for the sake of the Self.